Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights
Title | Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2011 |
Authors | Heineman, Elizabeth D. |
Number of Pages | 342 |
Publisher | University of Philadelphia Press |
City | Philadelphia |
Abstract | 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. Since the 1990s, sexual violence in conflict zones has received much media attention. In large part as a result of grassroots feminist organizing in the 1970s and 1980s, mass rapes in the wars in the former Yugoslavia and during the Rwandan genocide received widespread coverage, and international organizations—from courts to NGOs to the UN—have engaged in systematic efforts to hold perpetrators accountable and to ameliorate the effects of wartime sexual violence. Yet many millennia of conflict preceded these developments, and we know little about the longer-term history of conflict based sexual violence. Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones helps to fill in the historical gaps. It provides insight into subjects that are of deep concern to the human rights community, such as the aftermath of conflict-based sexual violence, legal strategies for prosecuting it, the economic functions of sexual violence, and the ways perceived religious or racial difference can create or aggravate settings of sexual danger. |
URL | http://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812204346 |
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Major Wars:
- Wars of Colonization (1600s-1770s)
- French Wars of Religion (1562-98)
- English Civil War (1642–51)
- Thirty Years' War (1618-48)
- Seven Years' War (1756-63)
- Wars of Colonization (1600s-1770s)
- American Revolutionary Wars (1775-83)
- Wars of Colonization/Imperial Wars (1830s-1910s)
- -American Civil War (1861-65)
- First World War (1914-19)
- Second World War (1939-45)
- Global Cold War (1947-91)
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- Introduction: Gender and the History of War
- 1. War and Gender: From The Thirty Years War and Colonial Conquest to the Wars of Revolution and Independence—An Overview
- 15. War and Gender: The Age of the World Wars and its Aftermath—An Overview
- 22. Sexuality, Sexual Violence and the Military in the Age of the World Wars
- 29. Conceptualizing Sexual Violence in Post-Cold War Global Conflicts
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