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- Title
Unwilling and Unprepared: Collective Responsibility for Traumatic Wartime Motherhood.
- Authors
Prundeanu-Thrower, Andreea M.
- Abstract
What does it mean to mother children born of illicit wartime relations? This article examines the detrimental effects of motherhood as a patriarchal institution shaped by nationalism/ ethnocentrism and its impact on “sentimental collaborators” in WWII France, survivors of genocidal rape in Rwanda, and returning Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) “wives” in Uganda. Using a corpus of written and oral testimonies by/about mothers of children born of war (CBOW), it argues that all mothers experienced trauma in their maternal roles and that communities were often complicit in perpetuating mother–child trauma post-conflict. Understanding such collective responsibility is crucial to our capacity to help future survivors of systemic violence.
- Subjects
RWANDA; UGANDA; MOTHERHOOD; LORD'S Resistance Army; MOTHER-child relationship; WAR; COMMUNITIES; WORLD War II; RAPE; GENOCIDE
- Publication
Law, Culture & the Humanities, 2022, Vol 18, Issue 3, p612
- ISSN
1743-8721
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1743872120964718