Sexual violence in conflict zones : from the ancient world to the era of human rights /

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Imprint:Philadelphia ; Oxford : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.
Description:vi, 342 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Subject:Rape as a weapon of war -- History.
Women and war -- History.
Women -- Violence against -- History.
Women -- Crimes against -- History.
War crimes -- History.
War victims -- History.
Rape as a weapon of war.
War crimes.
War victims.
Women and war.
Women (International law)
Women -- Violence against.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8392151
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Other authors / contributors:Heineman, Elizabeth D., 1962-
ISBN:9780812243185 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812243188 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-319) and index.
Summary:"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 precede these developments, and we know little about the longer-term history of conflict-based sexual violence. Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones helps to fill in the historical gaps. It provides insight into subjects that are of deep concern to the human rights community, such as the aftermath of conflict-based sexual violence, legal strategies for prosecuting it, the economic functions of sexual violence, and the ways perceived religious or racial difference can create or aggravate settings of sexual danger"--Provided by publisher.

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