Citation

Nikolic-Ristanovic V. Violence Against Women 1999; 5(1): 63-80.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/10778019922181158

PMID

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Abstract

In this article, violence against women in the former Yugoslavia is analyzed, with special emphasis on the influence of war, nationalism, and militarism on its occurrence. Violence against women in both war and areas that were not directly influenced by conflict are examined. Its main aim is to illustrate how militarism and nationalism--as contradictions to democracy--decrease the safety of women and shape their vulnerability in more variant ways, and with more traumatic consequences, than occur in societies with long traditions of democracy and during so called peacetimes. Special attention is drawn to the sexual, physical, and psychological violence against women in war and refuge, as well as to domestic and other forms of violence in areas not directly affected by war. Criminalization of society and inappropriate formal social control, consequences of both the war and a lack of democracy, are seen as generators of insecurity and victimization of women in the areas that are not directly influenced by conflict.

Language: en