ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on gender studies and adopts a feminist theoretical perspective in the analysis of the gendered political violence, seeking to situate the Greek case within a feminist critique that emphasizes the politics of gender and the role of nationalism in the surge of gender-related abuse and coercion in recent conflicts. It presents a topography of victims, practices, sites and perpetrators of torture. The chapter looks at specific cases of female torture and abuse as narrated by the women involved, analyzing these narratives through the lens of nationalism and gender. It examines the intersection and complex interplay of gender, nationalist ideals and sexuality, as well as trauma and memory, in the personal narratives. The chapter contextualizes, historicize and engender the experiences, traumas and silences of women within the Greek nationalist ideology, traditionalist rhetoric and extreme militarism. Womens memoirs are not usually acknowledged as historical sources or viewed as forming part of Greek national history.
