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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heineman, Elizabeth D., editor.

Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rape as a weapon of war--History.

Rape as a weapon of war.

Women and war--History.

Women and war.

Women (International law).

Women--Violence against--History.

Women.

Women--Crimes against--History.

War crimes--History.

War crimes.

War victims--History.

War victims.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the 1990's, sexual violence in conflict zones has received much media attention. In large part as a result of grassroots feminist organizing in the 1970's and 1980's, mass rapes in the wars in the former Yugoslavia and during the Rwandan genocide received widespread coverage, and international organizations-from courts to NGO's to the UN-have engaged in systematic efforts to hold perpetrators accountable and to ameliorate the effects of wartime sexual violence. Yet many millennia of conflict preceded these developments, and we know little about the longer-term history of conflict-based sexual violence. Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones helps to fill in the historical gaps. It provides insight into subjects that are of deep concern to the human rights community, such as the aftermath of conflict-based sexual violence, legal strategies for prosecuting it, the economic functions of sexual violence, and the ways perceived religious or racial difference can create or aggravate settings of sexual danger. Essays in the volume span a broad geographic, chronological, and thematic scope, touching on the ancient world, medieval Europe, the American Revolutionary War, precolonial and colonial Africa, Muslim Central Asia, the two world wars, and the Bangladeshi War of Independence. By considering a wide variety of cases, the contributors analyze the factors making sexual violence in conflict zones more or less likely and the resulting trauma more or less devastating. Topics covered range from the experiences of victims and the motivations of perpetrators, to the relationship between wartime and peacetime sexual violence, to the historical background of the contemporary feminist-inflected human rights moment. In bringing together historical and contemporary perspectives, this wide-ranging collection provides historians and human rights activists with tools for understanding long-term consequences of sexual violence as war-ravaged societies struggle to achieve post conflict stability.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction: The History of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones / Heineman, Elizabeth D.

PART I. Sexual Violence in Peace and in Conflict

Chapter 1. Rape in the American Revolution: Process, Reaction, and Public Re-Creation / Block, Sharon

Chapter 2. Sexual Violence in the Politics and Policies of Conquest: Amerindian Women and the Spanish Conquest of Alta California / Castañeda, Antonia I.

Chapter 3. Femicide as Terrorism: The Case of Uzbekistan's Unveiling Murders / Kamp, Marianne

PART II. The Economy of Conflict-Based Sexual Violence

Chapter 4. Girls, Women, and the Significance of Sexual Violence in Ancient Warfare / Gaca, Kathy L.

Chapter 5. The Victimization of Women in Late Precolonial and Early Colonial Warfare in Tanzania / Giblin, James

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 / Gullace, Nicoletta F.

Chapter 7. Sexual and Nonsexual Violence Against "Politicized Women" in Central Europe After the Great War / Gerwarth, Robert

Chapter 8. The "Big Rape": Sex and Sexual Violence, War, and Occupation in Post-World War II Memory and Imagination / Grossmann, Atina

Chapter 9. War as History, Humanity in Violence: Women, Men, and Memories of 1971, East Pakistan/Bangladesh / Saikia, Yasmin

PART IV. Law and Civilization

Chapter 10. The Theory and Practice of Female Immunity in the Medieval West / Curry, Anne

Chapter 11. Law, War, and Women in Seventeenth-Century England / Donagan, Barbara

Chapter 12. "Unlawfully and Against Her Consent": Sexual Violence and the Military During the American Civil War / Barber, E. Susan / Ritter, Charles F.

PART V. Toward an International Human Rights Framework

Chapter 13. Legal Responses to World War II Sexual Violence: The Japanese Experience / Totani, Yuma

Chapter 14. Toward Accountability for Violence Against Women in War: Progress and Challenges / Copelon, Rhonda

Notes

Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780812204346

0812204344

9781283896726

1283896729

OCLC:

793012555