UID:
edocfu_9958352310302883
Format:
1 online resource (352 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812204346
Series Statement:
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Content:
Drawing on examples from the ancient world to the two world wars, from the conquest of the Americas to Muslim Central Asia, this collection of essays brings together historical work with human rights scholarship to explore the history of wartime sexual violence, its long-term consequences, and transitions to peacetime society.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction: The History of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones /
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Chapter 1. Rape in the American Revolution: Process, Reaction, and Public Re-Creation /
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Chapter 2. Sexual Violence in the Politics and Policies of Conquest: Amerindian Women and the Spanish Conquest of Alta California /
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Chapter 3. Femicide as Terrorism: The Case of Uzbekistan’s Unveiling Murders /
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Chapter 4. Girls, Women, and the Significance of Sexual Violence in Ancient Warfare /
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Chapter 5. The Victimization of Women in Late Precolonial and Early Colonial Warfare in Tanzania /
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Chapter 6. War Crimes or Atrocity Stories? Anglo-American Narratives of Truth and Deception in the Aftermath of World War I /
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Chapter 7. Sexual and Nonsexual Violence Against "Politicized Women" in Central Europe After the Great War /
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Chapter 8. The "Big Rape": Sex and Sexual Violence, War, and Occupation in Post-World War II Memory and Imagination /
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Chapter 9. War as History, Humanity in Violence: Women, Men, and Memories of 1971, East Pakistan/Bangladesh /
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Chapter 10. The Theory and Practice of Female Immunity in the Medieval West /
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Chapter 11. Law, War, and Women in Seventeenth-Century England /
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Chapter 12. "Unlawfully and Against Her Consent": Sexual Violence and the Military During the American Civil War /
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Chapter 13. Legal Responses to World War II Sexual Violence: The Japanese Experience /
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Chapter 14. Toward Accountability for Violence Against Women in War: Progress and Challenges /
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Notes --
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Contributors --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812204346
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204346
