ON GENDER-AFFECTED WAR NARRATIVES Some Standpoints for Further Analysis

Under the impact of feminist and postmodern anthropology the issues of engendered violence in war and witnesses of trauma are discussed through the voices of women themselves: through their war diaries, essays, fiction writings, testimonies, recorded narrative and psychoanalytic interviews. This article is my very first attempt to present ethnographically a number of different female voices in wartime Croatia. Their narratives reflect different experiences, social engagement and unequal possibility to contribute to the public discourse where contrasting social constructions of war reality and the interpretations of recent events are still being offered.