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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463682203321

Autore

Fielding Leila

Titolo

Female genocidaires during the rwandan genocide : when women kill / / Leila Fielding

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg, Germany : , : Anchor Academic Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-95489-567-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (66 p.)

Collana

Compact

Disciplina

967.5710431

Soggetti

Genocide - Rwanda - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Rwanda History Civil War, 1994

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Female Genocidaires during the Rwandan Genocide; Table of Contents; Abstract; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE; Gender and Conflict; CHAPTER TWO; The Nature of Female Involvement; CHAPTER THREE; Women in Leadership Roles; CHAPTER FOUR; Motivations of 'Ordinary' Women; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources

Sommario/riassunto

Victimisation of women in times of war, genocide or mass slaughter has been the primary focus of the majority of explorations concerning gender and conflict. Traditionally, women are espoused as victims, at the mercy of male killers, and therefore subordinate. The notoriety of brutal, horrific, and incomprehensible sexual crimes against women in times of genocide has ensured that reluctance in addressing female accountability has plagued this debate. While examinations of these atrocities are imperative and indispensable in facilitating reconciliation, both psychological and social, this one-s