Gender and Genocide in Cambodia

Surviving Khmer Rouge

Azra Rashid (McGill University, Canada)

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Routledge
31 October 2023

Asian history; Colonialism & imperialism; Genocide & ethnic cleansing; Gender studies: women; Politics & government

Series: Mass Violence in Modern History

This book explores the multiplicity of women’s experiences in the Cambodian genocide during the four-year rule of the Khmer Rouge.

The dominant discourses of genocide often speak from a patriarchal and national perspective, rendering women speechless, and yet in this volume, the female survivors of the Cambodian genocide testify not only to the specific atrocities committed during the war but also to the pre-war conditions that laid the groundwork for a gender-specific victimization of women and its continuation post-war. With the help of testimonies from Khmer women who joined the Khmer Rouge, women who experienced sexual violence during the Khmer Rouge era, women who fled the country, and the Cham women who faced expulsion from home, this book explores the diversity of women’s experiences under the Khmer Rouge. Survivors’ accounts show that a Khmer woman’s experience with the Khmer Rouge was considerably different from the experience of not only a Khmer man but also a woman from a religious or ethnic minority group or a woman who chose to join the Khmer Rouge. These differences are conveniently ignored in nationalist discourses in Cambodia and by western scholars of history and gender-based violence, and they are given even less consideration in discourses about women survivors in diaspora. Instead of forcing generalization and universalization of gendered crimes of war, Gender and Genocide in Cambodia employs feminist curiosity and closely examines women’s experiences under the Khmer Rouge from multiple vantage points.

This volume is essential reading for students and scholars interested in gender and cultural studies, political history, and modern history.

By: Azra Rashid (McGill University Canada)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032413976
ISBN 10: 1032413972
Series: Mass Violence in Modern History
Pages: 178
Publication Date: 31 October 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Azra Rashid is an instructor in the Humanities Department at John Abbott College in Montreal and Research Fellow in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. Azra’s research is focused on testimony and representations of gender in discourses of war including her book Gender, Nationalism and Genocide in Bangladesh: Naristhan/Ladyland (2018).