The Body of WarIn The Body of War, Dubravka arkov analyzes representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s, during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. arkov proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity was produced by the war itself. arkov explores the process through which ethnicity was generated, showing how lived and symbolic female and male bodies