摘要：In this article I firstly argue that genocide and wars are gendered but also often
feminised via the positioning of women not only as sexual trophies exchangeable between
male enemies, not only as markers of collective boundaries, but also as the symbolic
representations of national and ethnic collectivities. I then interrogate the centrality of rape as
a component of ethno-sexual identities and an instrument of war, focusing on the difficulties
we have ¡®as women¡¯ but also as social scientists, to theorise wartime rape. Finally I propose
that creating a forum for women war victims to narrativise their traumatic experiences is a
vital feminist strategy of beginning to close the gap between genocide and gender and
between trauma and the discourses available to narrate it.
