from the ancient world to the era of human rights
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Heineman, Elizabeth D. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Copelon, Rhonda
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- WER 1A 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- oorlog en vrede, historisch, seksueel geweld, slachtoffers, daders, bundel
- Description
- 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. Essays in this volume span a broad geographic, chronological, and thematic scope, touching on the ancient world, medieval Europe, the American Revolutionary War, precolonial and colonial Africa, Muslim Central Asia, the two world wars, and the Bangladeshi War of Independence.Topics covered range from the experiences of victims and the motivations of perpetrators, to the relationship between wartime and peacetime sexual violence, to the historical background of the contemporary feminist-inflected human rights moment.