Wars Against Women: Sexual Violence, Sexual Politics and the Militarised State
Title | Wars Against Women: Sexual Violence, Sexual Politics and the Militarised State |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2000 |
Authors | Kelly, Liz |
Editor | Jacobs, Susie M., Ruth Jacobson, and Jen Marchbank |
Book Title | States of Conflict: Gender, Violence, and Resistance |
Pagination | 45-65 |
Publisher | Zed Books |
City | London ; New York |
Abstract | This short reflection encapsulates the core theme of this chapter: that sexual violence as a deliberate strategy in war and political repression by the state is connected in a range of ways to sexual violence in all other context. Sexual violence is one of the most extreme and effective forms of patriarchal control, which simultaneously damages and constrains women’s lives and prompts individual and collective resistance among women. In exploring these connections the conventional distinctions in political theory between ‘public’ and ‘private’, ‘war’ and ‘peace’ become problematic. |
Translated Title | Wars Against Women |
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