War and sexual violence : : new perspectives in a new era / / Sarah K. Danielsson, Frank Jacob, Jeffrey M Shaw, Hiram Kümper, Sabine Müller, Sarah K. Danielsson

• HerausgeberIn: Danielsson, Sarah K.; Jacob, Frank; Shaw, Jeffrey M; Kümper, Hiram; Müller, Sabine
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: War (Hi) Stories ; 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In the #MeToo era, the scourge of sexual violence in society has come into new focus. It has become clear that women and men have been, and are, victimized to an extent that many had previously not realized. But this invisibility has largely been aided by a history of silencing victims and of impunity for perpetrators. Wartime and military sexual violence has similar patterns of invisibility, silence and impunity. Furthermore, sexual violence in wartime and beyond is a phenomenon that cannot be divorced from broader social, economic and political issues. It is this dual focus on sexual violence itself and its contexualization that lies at the heart of this volume. This volume probes new directions in understanding sexual violence during conflict, as well as analyzing ethnicity, masculinity and their relationships to sexual violence.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Introduction: War and Sexual Violence – New Perspectives in a New Era / Sarah K. Danielsson -- The Genocidal Politics of Rape, Shame, and Disgust / Debra Bergoffen -- Teaching about the “Comfort System” of World War II: The Hidden Stories of Girls / Margaret D. Stetz -- Violence Against Women in the New African Wars / Meredeth Turshen -- Paranoid Repulsion-Combat Posture: Psychoanalytic Social Psychology of War and the Connection to the Core of Hyper-Masculinity / Sebastian Winter and Susanne Boehm -- Rethinking the Politics of Mass Rapes as a Military Strategy and Instrument of Ethnic Cleansing / Albert Doja -- The Negation of Suffering: Forced Sex Labor in Concentration Camp Brothels in Remembrance and Research / Verena Schneider -- Multi-Generational Memory of Sexual Violence during the Holocaust in Women’s Art / Mor Presiado -- “Frivolous Broads” and the “Black Menace”: The Catholic Clergy’s Perception of Victims and Perpetrators of Sexual Violence in Occupied Germany, 1945 / Johannes Kuber -- The Complexity of Victimhood: Understanding Mass Rape in Occupied Germany and Subsequent Debates on Victimhood / Rhiannon Parkinson -- Documentation as Erasure: Interrogating the Absences of Operation Sofia and the Death Squad Dossier / Maria Vargas -- Engendering the Understanding of Wartime Sexual Violence in Colombia: Hyper-Masculinities and Sexual Violence against Men / Isabella Flisi -- Back Matter -- Contributors -- Index.