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Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights
Elizabeth Heineman
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Description for Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Heineman, Elizabeth D. Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE2; JPVH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812222616
SKU
V9780812222616
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About Elizabeth Heineman
Elizabeth D. Heineman is Associate Professor of History and of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa.
Reviews for Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights
"The chapters in Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones provide in-depth analyses of pre-1990s episodes of sexual violence in conflict. . . . The book should be read by all researchers investigating contemporary issues of sexual violence in conflict to gain a deeper understanding of the functions of sexual violence in these conflicts."
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