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Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War?
Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern
2013
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All too often in conflict situations, rape is referred to as a 'weapon of war', a term presented as self-explanatory through its implied storyline of gender and warring. In this provocative but much-needed book, Eriksson Baaz and Stern challenge the dominant understandings of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings. Reading with and against feminist analyses of the interconnections between gender, warring, violence and militarization, the authors address many of the thorny issues inherent in the arrival of sexual violence on the global security agenda. Based on original fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as research material from other conflict zones, Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? challenges the recent prominence given to sexual violence, bravely highlighting various problems with isolating sexual violence from other violence in war. A much-anticipated book by two acknowledged experts in the field, on an issue that has become an increasingly important security, legal and gender topic.
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Keywords
- Africa
- Central Africa
- conflicts
- Congo DR
- Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire)
- Gender relations
- Geographical Qualifiers
- Human rights violations
- Humanitarian assistance
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- International cooperation
- Peace studies & conflict resolution
- Rape
- Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects
- Sexual abuse
- Social issues & processes
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- sub-Saharan Africa
- victims
- Violence against women
- violence in society
- War crimes
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DOI: 10.5040/9781350222557Editions