Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? Perceptions, Prescriptions, Problems in the Congo and Beyond
“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 con...
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London
Zed Books Ltd
2013
NBN International Zed Books Nordic Africa Institute The Nordic Africa Institute and Zed Books (Bloomsbury) Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Academic & Professional |
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| Edice: | Africa Now |
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| ISBN: | 9781350222557, 1350222550, 1780321651, 1780321635, 9781780321653, 9781780321639, 9781780321646, 1780321643, 9781780321660, 178032166X |
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- Introduction - 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 - Notes - Bibliography - About Zed Books
- Sexual violence as a weapon of war? perceptions, prescriptions, problems in the Congo and beyond -- Contents -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Sex/gender violence -- 2 'Rape as a weapon of war'? -- 3 The messiness and uncertainty of warring -- 4 Post-coloniality, victimcy and humanitarian engagement: being a good global feminist? -- 5 Concluding thoughts and unanswered questions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Intro -- AfricaNow -- About the authors -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Learning from the DRC: the so-called 'rape capital of the world' -- Some additional notes on theory and methodology -- Outline of the book -- 1 | Sex/gender violence -- Introduction -- The 'Sexed' Story: biology, (hetero)sexual urge and substitution -- The 'Gendered' Story: gender and militarization -- Available grids of intelligibility: sex-gender-violence in the DRC -- Uncomfortable subjects -- Conclusions: rendering the lives of rapists 'grievable' -- 2 | 'Rape as a weapon of war'? -- Reading the Rape as a Weapon of War discourse -- Strategicness -- Unpacking Rape as a Weapon of War -- Avoidability and the promise of deliverance -- Concluding thoughts -- 3 | The messiness and uncertainty of warring -- The discursive nature of military strategicness -- Failures of military institutions to embody discipline and control -- The micro-dynamics of violence in war -- Concluding discussion -- 4 | Post-coloniality, victimcy and humanitarian engagement: being a good global feminist? -- Introduction -- Imagining and representing the DRC war zone and its victims -- The commercialization of rape -- Who speaks, and who is complicit (and in what)? -- 5 | Concluding thoughts and unanswered questions -- Sex/gender and the creation of uncomfortable subjects -- The lure of a single route to redemption -- Leaking military structures and the uncertainty of war -- Turning back the clock? -- What we 'cannot not want' -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 Sex/gender violence -- 2 'Rape as a weapon of war'? -- 3 The messiness of warring -- 4 Post-coloniality, humanitarian engagement -- 5 Concluding thoughts -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Zed Books