Crimes against women / David Wingeate Pike, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pike, David Wingeate.

American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy.

Series:

Women's issues.

Women's issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Crimes against.

Women.

Women (International law).

Rape as a weapon of war.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

So long as women are considered inferior human beings, crimes against women will not be considered as crimes against humanity. The problem cannot be solved simply by women achieving economic freedom and education, but can only be solved by exposing, and then changing, cultural traditions, customs and religious practices that harm humanity by debasing women. When men are tortured, it is considered a crime. When women are tortured, it is dismissed as a custom, a part of the tradition. Millions of people literally believe in the propriety of throwing live women onto their husband's funeral pyre, or mutilating female genitals, since it is accepted as tradition and has formed part of the culture. This sick mentality of the past must end. This book explores the cultural aspects of injustices against women and the general exploitation by a male-oriented society.

Contents:

The laws governing crimes against women constituting Obligatio Erga Omnes / Farhad Malekian

The human rights design: a critique of "universality" in a patriarchal world / Ruchi Anand

Ethical and meta-ethical approaches to violence against women / Angèle Kremer-Marietti

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (2002): the impact of the coalition of women's groups / Cenap Cakmak

Rape and other sexual violence against women and girls in armed conflict: legal aspects / Eileen Servidio-Delabre

Defining rape in conflict-affected areas / Robynn Collins

Wartime rape in the Congo / Stefan Kirchner

Imperial Japan and its comfort women / David Wingate Pike

Women SS-guards in concentration camps in Nazi Germany / Elissa Mailänder Koslov

Women in prisoners' brothels in Nazi Germany / Brigitte Halbmayr

The HIV-antidote myth and infant rape in South Africa / Tomoyuki (Tom) Hashimoto

Rape among the Shona in Zimbabwe / Tyanai Charamba

Domestic, community and state-sponsored violence in Nigeria / J. Shola Omotola and Saheed Aderinto

Vesico-vaginal fistula in Nigeria / Mairo V. Bello Garko

Multi-faceted violence against women in Kenya / Lydiah W. Nganga

Female genital mutilation in Kenya / Grace B. Nyamongo

Female genital mutilation in Senegal and Somalia / Tobe Levin

Patriarchal dominance and female subservience in Ethiopia / Melissa Krall

Honour killings and the law in Turkey / Ece Göztepe

Female suicide in Afghanistan / Carol Mann

An Ngo's long-term strategy in Pakistan / Naeem Sarfraz

Dowries in India / Ruchi Anand

The dalit women of India / Rajeni Chagar

Acid attacks in Bangladesh / Mahera Khaleque

The Jhumma women of Bangladesh / Anonymous

Trafficking in women in Russia / Anonymous

Abuse of women in medieval and early modern Spain / Isabel Pérez Molina

Forced marriage as a foreign policy issue in the United Kingdom / Sir Christopher MacRae

A celebrated lynching in the United States / Carol Lee Bowers.

Notes:

"A project of the American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1-61668-896-3

OCLC:

923662783