The work of rape / Rana M. Jaleel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jaleel, Rana M., 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rape as a weapon of war.

Sex crimes--Rwanda.

Sex crimes.

Sex crimes--Yugoslavia.

Women and war.

Women in war.

Women--Violence against--Rwanda.

Women.

Women--Violence against--Yugoslavia.

Rape.

International criminal law.

Women--Violence against.

Rwanda.

Yugoslavia.

Physical Description:

ix, 266 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In The Work of Rape Rana M. Jaleel argues that the redefinition of sexual violence within international law as a war crime, crime against humanity, and genocide owes a disturbing and unacknowledged debt to power and knowledge achieved from racial, imperial, and settler-colonial domination. Prioritizing critiques of racial capitalism from women of color, Indigenous, queer, trans, and global South perspectives, Jaleel reorients how violence is socially defined and distributed through legal definitions of rape. From Cold War conflicts in Latin America, the 1990s ethnic wars in Rwanda and Yugoslavia, and the War on Terror to ongoing debates about sexual assault on college campuses, Jaleel considers how legal and social iterations of rape and the terms that define it--onsent, force, coercion--re unstable indexes and abstractions of social difference that mediate racial and colonial positionalities. Jaleel traces how post-Cold War orders of global security and governance simultaneously transform the meaning of sexualized violence, extend US empire, and disavow legacies of enslavement, Indigenous dispossession, and racialized violence within the United States. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Work of Rape

The US sex wars meet the ethnic wars

States of war, men as state : the tortured Americas, genocidal Balkans, and the sexual state form

My own private genocide : from ethnic war to the War on Terror

Two Title IXs : empire and the transnational production of "welcomeness" on campus

Decolonial and abolitionist feminisms and The Work of Rape.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-253) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Jaleel, Rana M., 1974- Work of rape.

ISBN:

9781478013570

1478013575

9781478014508

1478014504

OCLC:

1240575767