Rape in Wartime

This collection offers a new reflection on rape in war time through 15 case studies, ranging from Greece to Nigeria. It questions the specificity of rape as a universal transgression, its place in memories of war, its legacies, including children born from rape, and the challenge of writing about in...

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Other Authors: Branche, Raphaëlle (Editor), Virgili, Fabrice (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2012, 2012
Series:Genders and Sexualities in History
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This collection offers a new reflection on rape in war time through 15 case studies, ranging from Greece to Nigeria. It questions the specificity of rape as a universal transgression, its place in memories of war, its legacies, including children born from rape, and the challenge of writing about intimate violence as both a scientist and a human
Physical Description:XIII, 237 p online resource
ISBN:9781137283399