LEADER 03980nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910463179203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78032-165-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000356100 035 $a(EBL)1183076 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000908731 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12354619 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000908731 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10901577 035 $a(PQKB)10902996 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1183076 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1183076 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10696011 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL485832 035 $a(OCoLC)847010008 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000356100 100 $a20111102d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSexual violence as a weapon of war?$b[electronic resource] $eproblems in the Congo and beyond /$fMaria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cZed Books$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (170 p.) 225 1 $aAfrica Now 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78032-164-3 311 $a1-78032-163-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAfrica 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'? 327 $aReading 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 327 $aWho 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 330 $aIn this provocative but much-needed book, Eriksson Baaz and Stern challenge the dominant understandings of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings. Based on original fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as research material from other conflict zones, the book challenges the recent prominence given to sexual violence, highlighting the problems with isolating that from other violence in war. A much-anticipated book by two acknowledged experts in the field. 410 0$aAfrica now (Zed Books) 606 $aWomen$xCrimes against 606 $aWar victims 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen$xCrimes against. 615 0$aWar victims. 676 $a364.1532 700 $aBaaz$b Maria Eriksson$0878474 701 $aStern$b Maria$0878475 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463179203321 996 $aSexual violence as a weapon of war$91961395 997 $aUNINA