Introduction to Gender, Violence, and Identity  

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Bhattacharya, Himika

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Qualitative Inquiry vol. 15 no. 2 (Feb. 2009), page 267-275.
Fulltext: 267.pdf (84.12KB)

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Every piece in this issue on gender, violence, and identity, carries with it a sense of feminist unease. The contributors to this issue variously illustrate the ways in which identity and violence are shaped by each other. In her piece on the Rwandan genocide, Mutua-Kombo does this by revealing the contested role of women as they also commit violent acts in the Rwandan genocide. Radha Hegde dwells on this sense of discomfort when illustrating the negotiations needed in her feminist ethnographic research involving female infanticide, where a participant in her project shares with her a possible justification for this form of violence. Koelsch and Knudson struggle with representing moments of confusion for women who experienced sexual assault at different stages of their life—especially when they understand these women’s narrativization of their own violent experiences as unhealthy and dangerous. Jager and Burns detail the constant struggle and determination experienced by a clinician in her interactions with a client’s history of extreme abuse, by problematizing the client–clinician relationship in such instances. Jeanine Minge and Amber Zimmerman further complicate the problematic relationship between sexual violence and healing, which they foreground through graphic descriptions of both these processes. Cara Mackie in her poem too shares her experience of sexual violence and finally of sexual agency. Both the pieces (by Mackie and by Minge and Zimmerman) discuss sexual violence and sexual pleasure graphically. They demonstrate how differing identities get created through violent and pleasurable acts on their bodies. The dissonance and discomfort they create leads to a political recovery, which occurs as each writer remembers and recovers her body and self from a horrific history of violence. In my own piece, I foreground the discomfort created through the

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