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Gender Violence in Peace and War
. Ed(S): Sanford, Victoria; Stefatos, Katerina; Salvi, Cecilia M.
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hardcover. Reports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of women. Yet this reign of terror against women not only occurs during exceptional moments of social collapse, but during peacetime too. As this powerful book argues, violence against women should be understood as a systemic problem - one for which the state must be held accountable. Editor(s): Sanford, Victoria; Stefatos, Katerina; Salvi, Cecilia M. Series: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights. Num Pages: 216 pages, 4 photographs, 7 figures, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSJ; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Reports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of women, who are frequently raped, tortured, beaten, and pressed into sexual servitude. Yet this reign of terror against women not only occurs during exceptional moments of social collapse, but during peacetime too. As this powerful book argues, violence against women should be understood as a systemic problem—one for which the state must be held accountable. The twelve essays in Gender Violence in Peace and War present a continuum of cases where the state enables violence against women—from state-sponsored torture to lax prosecution of sexual assault. Some contributors uncover buried histories of ... Read more
Reports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of women, who are frequently raped, tortured, beaten, and pressed into sexual servitude. Yet this reign of terror against women not only occurs during exceptional moments of social collapse, but during peacetime too. As this powerful book argues, violence against women should be understood as a systemic problem—one for which the state must be held accountable. The twelve essays in Gender Violence in Peace and War present a continuum of cases where the state enables violence against women—from state-sponsored torture to lax prosecution of sexual assault. Some contributors uncover buried histories of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813576183
SKU
V9780813576183
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About . Ed(S): Sanford, Victoria; Stefatos, Katerina; Salvi, Cecilia M.
VICTORIA SANFORD is professor and chair of anthropology, as well as director of the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies at Lehman College, and doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of many books including Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala, and is the coeditor of Engaged Observer: Activism, ... Read more
Reviews for Gender Violence in Peace and War
"In this excellent book, the contributors consistently and compellingly question our assumptions about the state and gender violence in ways that will ground forthcoming scholarly conversations."
Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber
City College of New York
"This wide-ranging volume documents the complicity of states in gender violence, from state perpetration of strategic sexual violence in some conflict settings – ... Read more
Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber
City College of New York
"This wide-ranging volume documents the complicity of states in gender violence, from state perpetration of strategic sexual violence in some conflict settings – ... Read more