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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809087003321

Titolo

Rape in Wartime / / edited by R. Branche, F. Virgili

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

1-137-28339-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9479

Disciplina

362.88309

364.15/32

364.1532

Soggetti

World history

Social history

Military history

Politics and war

History, Modern

World History, Global and Transnational History

Social History

History of Military

Military and Defence Studies

Modern History

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Writing the History of Rape in Wartime; 1 Categorising Rape in the Military Law of Modern Russia; 2 The Unquestioned Crime: Sexual Violence by German Soldiers during the War of Annihilation in the Soviet Union, 1941-45; 3 The Victimisation of the Body and the Body Politic during the Greek Civil War, 1946-49; 4 Mass Rape and the Inscription of Gendered and Racial Domination during the Bangladesh War of 1971

5 Rape, Blaming the Victim and Social Control in Paramilitary Enclaves: An Approach to the Case of Colombia6 After ""Teutonic Fury"", ""Belgian Fury""? Fact and Fiction in the Revenge of Belgian Soldiers in the



Rhineland in 1923; 7 The Practices of War, Terror and Imagination: Moor Troops and Rapes during the Spanish Civil War; 8 Promising Rape: Private Militias against Maoist Guerrillas in the State of Bihar (India); 9 The Weight of Imagination: Rapes and the Legend of Women Snipers in Chechnya

10 Breaking the Silence: New Approaches to the Consequences of Rape in Some African Conflicts, 1994-200811 The Body That Writes: Reflections on the Process of Writing about Wartime Rape Avoidance in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; 12 The Nigerian Civil War of 1967 and the Stigmatisation of Children Born of Rape Victims in Edo State; 13 ""Special Decisions"" Children Born as the Result of German Rape and Handed Over to Public Assistance during the Great War (1914-18); 14 The Russians and Germans: Rape during the War and Post-Soviet Memories; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.