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Female genocidaires during the rwandan genocide : when women kill / Leila Fielding.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fielding, Leila, author.
- Series:
- Compact.
- Compact
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genocide--Rwanda--History--20th century.
- Genocide.
- Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994.
- Rwanda.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (66 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Hamburg, Germany : Anchor Academic Publishing, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Victimisation of women in times of war, genocide or mass slaughter has been the primary focus of the majority of explorations concerning gender and conflict. Traditionally, women are espoused as victims, at the mercy of male killers, and therefore subordinate. The notoriety of brutal, horrific, and incomprehensible sexual crimes against women in times of genocide has ensured that reluctance in addressing female accountability has plagued this debate. While examinations of these atrocities are imperative and indispensable in facilitating reconciliation, both psychological and social, this one-s
- Contents:
- Female Genocidaires during the Rwandan Genocide; Table of Contents; Abstract; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE; Gender and Conflict; CHAPTER TWO; The Nature of Female Involvement; CHAPTER THREE; Women in Leadership Roles; CHAPTER FOUR; Motivations of 'Ordinary' Women; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 19, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 3-95489-567-6
- OCLC:
- 878148851
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