Rape in Wartime: A History to be Written (Genders and Sexualities in History)
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Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Branche, Raphaelle; Virgili, Fabrice. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBW; JFFE2; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 221 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Genders and Sexualities in History
Number of Pages
237
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230363991
SKU
V9780230363991
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99-15
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NATALIA SUAREZ BONILLA Associate Professor University del Valle, Colombia ISABELLE DELPLA Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University Montpellier III, France ANNE GODFROID Doctorate Student working on the Belgian occupation of the Rhineland (Royal Military Academy, Brussels), Belgium JOHN HORNE Professor of Modern European History, Trinity College Dublin, a Fellow of TCD and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Ireland ADEDIRAN ... Read more
Reviews for Rape in Wartime: A History to be Written (Genders and Sexualities in History)
'Although war facilitates rape, it does so in distinctive contexts and to varying levels in different settings. Rape in Wartime examines perpetrators within the legitimate military services, paramilitary groups, guerrilla units, and civilians. Similarly, the book highlights how sexual violence in conflict has a multitude functions. Branche and Virgili's volume illustrates what rigorous historical scholarship about rape in ... Read more