%0 Journal Article %T Campos de estupro: as mulheres e a guerra na B¨®snia %A Peres %A Andr¨¦a Carolina Schvartz %J Cadernos Pagu %D 2011 %I N¨²cleo de Estudos de G¨ºnero - Pagu %R 10.1590/S0104-83332011000200005 %X the war in bosnia and herzegovina ethnically organized territories and redefined the ethno-national categories and groups - serbs, croats and bosnians (muslims). beside the battles between soldiers at the front lines, several atrocities used to happen in other fields: homes, villages, cities, detention places, concentration camps, and the rape camps. this article introduces the debate about the rapes that occurred during the war in bosnia and the ways to understand them: as a war weapon, as an ethnic cleansing tool, as an attempt to extermination. %K bosnia and herzegovina %K rape %K ethnic cleansing %K nationalism %K gender. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0104-83332011000200005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en