03980nam 2200625Ia 450 991046317920332120200520144314.01-78032-165-1(CKB)2670000000356100(EBL)1183076(SSID)ssj0000908731(PQKBManifestationID)12354619(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000908731(PQKBWorkID)10901577(PQKB)10902996(MiAaPQ)EBC1183076(Au-PeEL)EBL1183076(CaPaEBR)ebr10696011(CaONFJC)MIL485832(OCoLC)847010008(EXLCZ)99267000000035610020111102d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSexual violence as a weapon of war?[electronic resource] problems in the Congo and beyond /Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria SternLondon ;New York Zed Books20131 online resource (170 p.)Africa NowDescription based upon print version of record.1-78032-164-3 1-78032-163-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Africa Now; 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 rapeWho 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 BooksIn this provocative but much-needed book, Eriksson Baaz and Stern challenge the dominant understandings of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings. Based on original fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as research material from other conflict zones, the book challenges the recent prominence given to sexual violence, highlighting the problems with isolating that from other violence in war. A much-anticipated book by two acknowledged experts in the field.Africa now (Zed Books)WomenCrimes againstWar victimsElectronic books.WomenCrimes against.War victims.364.1532Baaz Maria Eriksson878474Stern Maria878475MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463179203321Sexual violence as a weapon of war1961395UNINA01020nam0 22002531i 450 UON0003386220231205102113.55220020107d1964 |0itac50 baengGB|||| 1||||ˆAn ‰Atlas of Middle Eastern affairsText by Robert C. Kingsburymaps by Norman J.G. PoundsLondonMethuen & Co.1964 vi,117 p.cart. ; 19 cmMEDIO ORIENTEStoriaSec. XXUONC004360FIGBLondonUONL003044VO IVVICINO ORIENTE - STORIAAKINGSBURYRobert C.UONV022029272337Methuen & Co.UONV247855650ITSOL20240220RICASIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOUONSIUON00033862SIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOSI VO IV 156 N SI MR 83552 5 156 N Atlas of Middle Eastern affairs684422UNIOR