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Sexual violence as a weapon of war? [electronic resource] : perceptions, prescriptions, problems in the Congo and beyond / Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern

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Baaz, Maria Eriksson
Published
London ; New York, NY : Zed Books ; Uppsala, Sweden : Nordic Africa Institute, [2013]
Physical Description
vii, 157 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Stern, Maria and Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
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Contents
Sex/gender violence -- 'Rape as a weapon of war'? -- The messiness and uncertainty of warring -- Post-coloniality, victimcy and humanitarian engagement: being a good global feminist? -- Concluding thoughts and unanswered questions.
Summary
"All too often in conflict situations, rape is referred to as a 'weapon of war', a term presented as self-explanatory through its implied storyline of gender and warring. In this provocative but much-needed book, Eriksson Baaz and Stern challenge the dominant understandings of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings. Reading with and against feminist analyses of the interconnections between gender, warring, violence and militarization, the authors address many of the thorny issues inherent in the arrival of sexual violence on the global security agenda. Based on original fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as research material from other conflict zones, Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? challenges the recent prominence given to sexual violence, bravely highlighting various problems with isolating sexual violence from other violence in war. A much-anticipated book by two acknowledged experts in the field, on an issue that has become an increasingly important security, legal and gender topic."--Publisher's website.
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9781780321646 (hbk.)
1780321643 (hbk.)
9781780321639 (pbk.)
1780321635 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-152) and index.
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