Gender Violence in Peace and War : : States of Complicity / / Victoria Sanford, Cecilia M. Salvi, Katerina Stefatos.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2016
• TeilnehmendeR: Anastario, Mike; Cosgrove, Serena; Dill, Kathleen; Duyos-Álvarez, Sofia; Hoewer, Melanie; Johnson, Janet Elise; Jäppinen, Maija; McAtackney, Laura; Moradi, Fazil; Pohlman, Annie; Salvi, Cecilia M.; Sanford, Victoria; Stefatos, Katerina; Theidon, Kimberly; Walsh, Shannon Drysdale
• MitwirkendeR: Anastario, Mike,; Cosgrove, Serena,; Drysdale Walsh, Shannon,; Hoewer, Melanie,; Johnson, Janet Elise,; Jäppinen, Maija,; Mcatackney, Laura,; Moradi, Fazil,; Pohlman, Annie,; Salvi, Cecilia M.,; Sanford, Victoria,; Stefatos, Katerina,; Theidon, Kimberly,; Álvarez-Arenas, Sofĺa Duyos,
• HerausgeberIn: Salvi, Cecilia M.,; Sanford, Victoria,; Stefatos, Katerina,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 p.) :; 4 photographs, 7 figures, 1 ta

Reports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of women, who are frequently raped, tortured, beaten, and pressed into sexual servitude. Yet this reign of terror against women not only occurs during exceptional moments of social collapse, but during peacetime too. As this powerful book a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: State Violence, Gender, and Resistance
• 1. Subaltern Bodies: Gender Violence, Sexual Torture, and Political Repression during the Greek Military Dictatorship (1967-1974)
• 2. Sexual Violence as a Weapon during the Guatemalan Genocide
• 3. Gender, Incarceration, and Power Relations during the Irish Civil War (1922-1923)
• 4. Resistance and Activism against State Violence in Chiapas, Mexico
• Part II: The Continuum of Sexual Violence and the Role of the State
• 5. Medical Record Review and Evidence of Mass Rape during the 2007-2008 Postelection Violence in Kenya
• 6. The Force of Writing in Genocide: On Sexual Violence in the al-Anfāl Operations and Beyond
• 7. Sexualized Bodies, Public Mutilation, and Torture at the Beginning of Indonesia's New Order Regime (1965-1966)
• Part III: State Responses to Gender Violence
• 8. Advances and Limits of Policing and Human Security for Women: Nicaragua in Comparative Perspective
• 9. The State to the Rescue? The Contested Terrain of Domestic Violence in Postcommunist Russia
• 10. The Absent State: Teen Mothers and New Patriarchal Forms of Gender Subordination in the Democratic Republic of Congo
• 11. Anti-Trafficking Legislation, Gender Violence, and the State
• Conclusion: Reflections on the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda
• Notes on Contributors
• Index