Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict

Name: Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict
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ISBN: 9780745641881

ISBN-10: 0745641881

ISBN-13: 9780745641881

Edition: 2011

Authors: Janie L. Leatherman

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Every year, hundreds of thousands of women become victims of sexual violence in conflict zones around the world; in the Democratic Republic of Congo alone, approximately 1,100 rapes are reported each month. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the causes, consequences and responses to sexual violence in contemporary armed conflict. It explores the function and effect of wartime sexual violence and examines the conditions that make women and girls most vulnerable to these acts both before, during and after conflict. To understand the motivations of the men (and occasionally women) who perpetrate this violence, the book analyzes the role played by systemic and situational factors such…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 2/11/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.96" wide x 8.30" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations



Ending the Silence



Dimensions of Sexual Violence in Conflict



Sexual Violence and the Onset of Armed Conflict



Seeking Safe Space



Sexual Violence and the Global Political Economy of War



From Protection and Accountability to an Ethic of Caring


Notes


Selected Readings


Index