Bibliograph

Ideologies of forgetting, rape in the Vietnam War, Gina Marie Weaver

Type

Label

Ideologies of forgetting, rape in the Vietnam War, Gina Marie Weaver

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ideologies of forgetting

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Gina Marie Weaver

Series statement

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory

Sub title

rape in the Vietnam War

Summary

First book to study rape and sexual abuse of Vietnamese women by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War. Rape has long been a part of war, and recent conflicts in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur demonstrate that it may be becoming an even more integral strategy of modern warfare. In contrast to the media attention to sexual violence against women in these recent conflicts, however, the incidence and consequences of rape in the Vietnam War have been largely overlooked. Using testimony, oral accounts, literature, and film, Ideologies of Forgetting focuses on the rape and sexual abuse of Vietnamese women by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam war, and argues that the erasure and elision of these practices of sexual violence in the U.S. popular imagination perpetuates the violent masculinity central to contemporary U.S. military culture. Gina Marie Weaver claims that recognition of this violence is important not just for an accurate historical record, but also to truly understand the Vietnam veteran's trauma, which often stems from his aggression rather than his victimization

Target audience

adult

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