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Women’s Personal Narratives and the Multi-layered Legacies of War

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This chapter revisits the ambivalent impact of the Bosnian conflict in affecting women’s lives and sense of security, as well opening up opportunities and spaces for women’s political action. Interweaving feminist literature with interview material, this chapter charts complex narratives of women’s experiences of/during the Bosnian War and unearths the different dynamics shaping women’s practices of citizenship in the transition to the so-called peace.

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Deiana, MA. (2018). Women’s Personal Narratives and the Multi-layered Legacies of War. In: Gender and Citizenship. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59378-8_4

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