Analyses representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s, and in early 1990s during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. This book proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity was produced by the war itself.
Examines how notions of femininity and masculinity and heterosexual norms produced ethnicity in the disintegration of former Yugoslavia and also looks at how words and images created by the media are just as influential as violent practices in constructin