About the Author

Tatjana Takševa is an Associate Professor at the English Department and the Women and Gender Studies Program at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada. She has published articles on motherhood and consumerism, motherhood and teaching, intensive mothering practices, as well as Renaissance literature and multiculturalism, cross-cultural communication and digital media. Her current research is focused on the recent Balkan war, the enforced impregnation of women in the rape camps, and mothering children born of rape. She is currently working on genocidal rape, motherhood and the discourse of national identity on the Balkans. She is a member of a research team working on wartime rapes and transgenerational trauma in post-WWII Germany and post-conflict Bosnia, and a member of the Central and Eastern European Studies Research Group – Groupe de recherche en études de l’Europe Centrale et de l’Est at the University of Ottawa. She has presented her research on the Bosnian rape camps at a number of national and international public and scholarly forums.

Arlene Sgoutas is an Associate Professor and Director at the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services at Metropolitan State University of Denver in Denver, CO. Her research and teaching interests are focused on feminist interventions in international relations with an emphasis on women’s movements in the developing world.

Reviews

?Mothers Under Fire: Mothering in Conflict Areas is an excellent and wel- come contribution to the study of gender and conflict, and in particular the impact of conflict on mothers and mothering. Through different disci- plinary perspectives, first person interviews, and historical and contempo- rary cases across geographic regions, this book convincingly demonstrates how mothers have agency in times of conflict and post-conflict.? ?Kristen P. Williams, Clark University