Challenging conceptions : children born of wartime rape and sexual exploitation / edited by Kimberly Theidon, Dyan Mazurana, and Dipali Anumol.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mazurana, Dyan E., editor.

Anumol, Dipali, editor.

Theidon, Kimberly, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of rape victims.

Rape as a weapon of war.

Sex crimes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Tens of thousands of children worldwide have been born as a result of mass rape campaigns or wartime sexual exploitation. What about these living legacies of rape and sexual violence? What do we know about these children and their life chances? To explore these and other questions, Challenging Conceptions gathers together an interdisciplinary and international roster of scholars. They include professors and doctoral students in the fields of anthropology, gender studies, history, law, transitional justice, social work, and sociology among others. Some of these practitioners and scholars, as they explain in their chapters, are also themselves women who gave birth to children born of wartime sexual violence. The exchange of their voices and perspectives shines through in this collection to produce new and cutting-edge knowledge on children born of war time sexual violence.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Author Biographies

1. Challenging Conceptions

Part I Life Cycles: Children Born of Wartime Rape Across Time and Space

2. "They're Called Bui Doi": (Re)framing the Politics of Amerasians and Children Born of War

3. Reconstructing the Small Family After Democratic Kampuchea: Forced Marriage, Ritual Renewal, and Parent-Child Entanglement in Cambodia

4. Unintended Consequences or Desired Outcome? Children Born of War and Their Role in National Rebirth

Part II Beyond Stigma: Gender, Kinship, and Belonging in Northern Uganda

5. Gender, Kinship, and Affiliation of Children Born of War in Patriarchal Northern Uganda

6. Kinship and Belonging Among Children Born of War in Northern Uganda: "I Am a Child Who Is Not from Here"

7. Missing Fathers: Children Born of Wartime Rape and Their Perspectives on Fathers and Fatherhood in Northern Uganda

Part III (In)visibility: Concealment, Disclosure, and the Question of Categories

8. Triptych: Seeing Children Born of Wartime Rape

9. The Unknown Youth of Al-Shabaab: Children Born from Al-Shabaab Sexual Violence

10. Contested Identities: Gender, Reproduction, and War in Colombia

11. The Complexity of Sexual Violence, Birthing, and Status After the Fall of the Caliphate

Part IV Transformations: Intergenerational Reconciliation and Justice

12. "Where Do You Send the Pain?": Agency and Resilience in Three Children Born of War in Bosnia and Herzegovina

13. The Role of Spirituality in the Acceptance of Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

14. Moving Beyond Rwanda's "Children of Bad Memory": A Conversation on Working with Mothers and Children Born of Wartime Rape

15. Local Inspiration, Global Implementation: Upholding the Rights of Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Theidon, Kimberly Challenging Conceptions

ISBN:

0-19-764834-7

0-19-764832-0

0-19-764833-9