Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones : : From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights /

Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones : : From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights / / ed. by Elizabeth D. Heineman.

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Since the 1990s, sexual violence in conflict zones has received much media attention. In large part as a result of grassroots feminist organizing in the 1970s and 1980s, mass rapes in the wars in the former Yugoslavia and during the Rwandan genocide received widespread coverage, and international or...

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MitwirkendeR:
Barber, E. Susan,
Block, Sharon,
Castañeda, Antonia I.,
Copelon, Rhonda,
Curry, Anne,
Donagan, Barbara,
Gaca, Kathy L.,
Gerwarth, Robert,
Giblin, James,
Grossmann, Atina,
Gullace, Nicoletta F.,
Heineman, Elizabeth D.,
Kamp, Marianne,
Ritter, Charles F.,
Saikia, Yasmin,
Totani, Yuma,
HerausgeberIn:
Heineman, Elizabeth D.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The History of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones
  • PART I. Sexual Violence in Peace and in Conflict
  • Chapter 1. Rape in the American Revolution: Process, Reaction, and Public Re-Creation
  • Chapter 2. Sexual Violence in the Politics and Policies of Conquest: Amerindian Women and the Spanish Conquest of Alta California
  • Chapter 3. Femicide as Terrorism: The Case of Uzbekistan's Unveiling Murders
  • PART II. The Economy of Conflict-Based Sexual Violence
  • Chapter 4. Girls, Women, and the Significance of Sexual Violence in Ancient Warfare
  • Chapter 5. The Victimization of Women in Late Precolonial and Early Colonial Warfare in Tanzania
  • PART III. Tellings of Sexual Violence
  • Chapter 6. War Crimes or Atrocity Stories? Anglo-American Narratives of Truth and Deception in the Aftermath of World War I
  • Chapter 7. Sexual and Nonsexual Violence Against "Politicized Women" in Central Europe After the Great War
  • Chapter 8. The "Big Rape": Sex and Sexual Violence, War, and Occupation in Post-World War II Memory and Imagination
  • Chapter 9. War as History, Humanity in Violence: Women, Men, and Memories of 1971, East Pakistan/Bangladesh
  • PART IV. Law and Civilization
  • Chapter 10. The Theory and Practice of Female Immunity in the Medieval West
  • Chapter 11. Law, War, and Women in Seventeenth-Century England
  • Chapter 12. "Unlawfully and Against Her Consent": Sexual Violence and the Military During the American Civil War
  • PART V. Toward an International Human Rights Framework
  • Chapter 13. Legal Responses to World War II Sexual Violence: The Japanese Experience
  • Chapter 14. Toward Accountability for Violence Against Women in War: Progress and Challenges
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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