Format:
ca. 256 S.
ISBN:
9780230363991
Series Statement:
Genders and sexualities in history
Content:
This collection offers a new reflection on rape in war time through 15 case studies, ranging from Greece to Nigeria. It questions the specificity of rape as a universal transgression, its place in memories of war, its legacies, including children born from rape, and the challenge of writing about intimate violence as both a scientist and a human
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Writing the History of Rape in Wartime; 1 Categorising Rape in the Military Law of Modern Russia; 2 The Unquestioned Crime: Sexual Violence by German Soldiers during the War of Annihilation in the Soviet Union, 1941-45; 3 The Victimisation of the Body and the Body Politic during the Greek Civil War, 1946-49; 4 Mass Rape and the Inscription of Gendered and Racial Domination during the Bangladesh War of 1971
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5 Rape, Blaming the Victim and Social Control in Paramilitary Enclaves: An Approach to the Case of Colombia6 After ""Teutonic Fury"", ""Belgian Fury""? Fact and Fiction in the Revenge of Belgian Soldiers in the Rhineland in 1923; 7 The Practices of War, Terror and Imagination: Moor Troops and Rapes during the Spanish Civil War; 8 Promising Rape: Private Militias against Maoist Guerrillas in the State of Bihar (India); 9 The Weight of Imagination: Rapes and the Legend of Women Snipers in Chechnya
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10 Breaking the Silence: New Approaches to the Consequences of Rape in Some African Conflicts, 1994-200811 The Body That Writes: Reflections on the Process of Writing about Wartime Rape Avoidance in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; 12 The Nigerian Civil War of 1967 and the Stigmatisation of Children Born of Rape Victims in Edo State; 13 ""Special Decisions"" Children Born as the Result of German Rape and Handed Over to Public Assistance during the Great War (1914-18); 14 The Russians and Germans: Rape during the War and Post-Soviet Memories; Select Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137283399
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230363991
Additional Edition:
Print version Rape in Wartime
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1057/9781137283399
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