Sexual Violence As Political Terror

Author : Candice D. Ortbals,Lori M. Poloni-Staudinger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319736280

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Gender and Political Violence by Candice D. Ortbals,Lori M. Poloni-Staudinger Pdf

This book examines the role of gender in political conflicts worldwide, specifically the intersection between gender and terrorism. Political violence has historically been viewed as a male domain with men considered the perpetrators of violence and power, and women as victims without power. Whereas men and masculinity are associated with war and aggression, women and femininity conjure up socially constructed images of passivity and peace. This distinction of men as aggressors and women as passive victims denies women their voice and agency. This book investigates how women cope with and influence violent politics, and is both a descriptive and analytical attempt to describe in what ways women are present or absent in political contexts involving political violence, and how they deal with gender assumptions, express gender identities, and frame their actions regarding political violence encountered in their lives. The book looks to reach beyond the notion of women as victims of terrorism or genocide without agency, and to recognize the gendered nature of political conflicts and how women respond to violence. This book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in political science, sociology, cultural studies, and gender studies, academics in terrorism studies and gender studies, government officials, NGOs, and professionals working in areas of violent conflict.

Author : Victoria Sanford,Katerina Stefatos,Cecilia M. Salvi
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813576206

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Gender Violence in Peace and War by Victoria Sanford,Katerina Stefatos,Cecilia M. Salvi Pdf

Reports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of women, who are frequently raped, tortured, beaten, and pressed into sexual servitude. Yet this reign of terror against women not only occurs during exceptional moments of social collapse, but during peacetime too. As this powerful book argues, violence against women should be understood as a systemic problem—one for which the state must be held accountable. The twelve essays in Gender Violence in Peace and War present a continuum of cases where the state enables violence against women—from state-sponsored torture to lax prosecution of sexual assault. Some contributors uncover buried histories of state violence against women throughout the twentieth century, in locations as diverse as Ireland, Indonesia, and Guatemala. Others spotlight ongoing struggles to define the state’s role in preventing gendered violence, from domestic abuse policies in the Russian Federation to anti-trafficking laws in the United States. Bringing together cutting-edge research from political science, history, gender studies, anthropology, and legal studies, this collection offers a comparative analysis of how the state facilitates, legitimates, and perpetuates gender violence worldwide. The contributors also offer vital insights into how states might adequately protect women’s rights in peacetime, as well as how to intervene when a state declares war on its female citizens.

Author : Sharon Frederick,The AWARE Committee on Rape
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814513111

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Rape: Weapon Of Terror by Sharon Frederick,The AWARE Committee on Rape Pdf

This book is a well-researched and moving account of how sexual assault on women has become a potent weapon in virtually all armed conflicts. Chapters giving historical and geographic perspectives describe how rape has been used throughout the ages and around the world. Case histories reveal the individual tragedies within the broad picture. Contents: Lessons from the PastViolence on Three ContinentsAssaults in AsiaIndonesia: A History of Control and CorruptionWhere We Are, What We Can Do Readership: General. Keywords:Reviews:“With chilling detail, this book describes how rape became refined as a modern military tool to destroy entire communities and nations. RAPE: WEAPON OF TERROR is an impassioned plea for the silent majority to speak up and act now.”Iris Chang Author of THE RAPE OF NANKING “A valuable exploration of the meaning of rape as a weapon of terror. This will increase public understanding for required action. Wartime rape will hopefully begin to be treated for what it is — a crime against humanity.”Nancy Spence former Director Southeast Asian Gender Equality Programme (SEAGEP) “This book needs to be read. The extent of rape as a weapon of terror is well illustrated in this monograph by AWARE covering a range of armed conflict and war situations. It shows with case evidence, the many women raped, beaten and tortured in conflict in the Asian region. AWARE is to be applauded for the countries covered and for raising the issues in this publication.”Dr Vanessa Griffen Asian and Pacific Development Centre “RAPE: WEAPON OF TERROR is a moving and articulate account of the historical and current use of rape as a strategy of war. One cannot read it without horror and anger that this practice has not been treated with the same seriousness as other war crimes. A real strength of this book is the recommendations that illustrate a number of actions each of us can take to change this situation.”Dr Heather Maclean Director Center for Research in Women's Health, Toronto “The compelling stories and the valuable statistics will provide much needed information to advocates, counsellors and policy-makers as they work together to improve the lives of women. This book succeeds in graphically illustrating the horror of the issue but also moves beyond the horror to outline practical actions that individuals, communities and nations can take to end this most fundamental denial of human rights.”Donna Denham and Joan Gillespie Denham Gillespie Associates, Ottawa

Author : Claudia Forster-Towne
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780798302852

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Exploring the Plausibility of Linking Notions of Terrorism and Sexual Violence by Using the Great Lakes Region as a Case Study by Claudia Forster-Towne Pdf

Sexual violence has been endemic during times of conflict but can it be considered a form of terrorism? Despite being a very fluid term, Claudia Forster-Towne attempts to identify several of the core tenets of terrorism before trying to establish whether sexual violence could be regarded as terrorism in itself. The African Great Lakes region and the conflict that area has witnessed are used as a case study throughout the paper.

Author : Elizabeth D. Heineman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812204346

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Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones by Elizabeth D. Heineman Pdf

Since the 1990s, sexual violence in conflict zones has received much media attention. In large part as a result of grassroots feminist organizing in the 1970s and 1980s, mass rapes in the wars in the former Yugoslavia and during the Rwandan genocide received widespread coverage, and international organizations—from courts to NGOs to the UN—have engaged in systematic efforts to hold perpetrators accountable and to ameliorate the effects of wartime sexual violence. Yet many millennia of conflict preceded these developments, and we know little about the longer-term history of conflict-based sexual violence. Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones helps to fill in the historical gaps. It provides insight into subjects that are of deep concern to the human rights community, such as the aftermath of conflict-based sexual violence, legal strategies for prosecuting it, the economic functions of sexual violence, and the ways perceived religious or racial difference can create or aggravate settings of sexual danger. Essays in the volume span a broad geographic, chronological, and thematic scope, touching on the ancient world, medieval Europe, the American Revolutionary War, precolonial and colonial Africa, Muslim Central Asia, the two world wars, and the Bangladeshi War of Independence. By considering a wide variety of cases, the contributors analyze the factors making sexual violence in conflict zones more or less likely and the resulting trauma more or less devastating. Topics covered range from the experiences of victims and the motivations of perpetrators, to the relationship between wartime and peacetime sexual violence, to the historical background of the contemporary feminist-inflected human rights moment. In bringing together historical and contemporary perspectives, this wide-ranging collection provides historians and human rights activists with tools for understanding long-term consequences of sexual violence as war-ravaged societies struggle to achieve postconflict stability.

Author : Hannah Rosén
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807832028

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Terror in the Heart of Freedom by Hannah Rosén Pdf

Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South

Author : Raymond Gillespie Frey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521409500

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Violence, Terrorism, and Justice by Raymond Gillespie Frey Pdf

"Papers from a conference held at Bowling Green State University in the fall of 1988" -- T.p. verso.

Author : Sarah Prior,Brooke A. de Heer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000683592

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Campus Sexual Violence by Sarah Prior,Brooke A. de Heer Pdf

Campus Sexual Violence: A State of Institutionalized Sexual Terrorism conceptualizes sexual violence on college campuses as a form of sexual terrorism, arguing that institutional compliance and inaction within the neoliberal university perpetuate a system of sexual terrorism. Using a sexual terrorism framework, the authors examine a myriad of examples of campus sexual violence with an intersectional lens and explore the role of the institution and the influence of neoliberalism in undermining sexual violence prevention efforts. The book utilizes Carole Sheffield’s five components of sexual terrorism (ideology, propaganda, amorality, perceptions of the perpetrator, and voluntary compliance) to describe how the "ivory tower stereotype" and adoption of neoliberal values into education contribute to an environment where victimization is painfully common. Cases such as those from Michigan State University and Baylor University are used as examples to highlight institutional culpability and neoliberal value systems within higher education, as well as illustrating the pervasiveness of rape culture that contributes to a system of sexual terrorism. Crucially, the book focuses on systems of inequality and oppression, and uses an intersectional perspective that recognizes victimization experienced by multiple marginalized groups including women, LGBTQ+, and racially minoritized people. Building on campus violence research and institutional harm research, the authors define campus sexual violence as a serious social problem based in structural inequality and advocate for civic responsibility at the institutional level and the development of institutional advocates. Weaving together theoretical and practical perspectives, the book will be of great interest to students and scholars of sociology, criminal justice, women’s and gender studies, social/political policy, victimology, and education. It will also be of use to those working in higher education administration and other student life and student health professions.

Author : Laura Sjoberg,Caron E. Gentry
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820341309

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Women, Gender, and Terrorism by Laura Sjoberg,Caron E. Gentry Pdf

In the last decade the world has witnessed a rise in women's participation in terrorism. Women, Gender, and Terrorism explores women's relationship with terrorism, with a keen eye on the political, gender, racial, and cultural dynamics of the contemporary world. Throughout most of the twentieth century, it was rare to hear about women terrorists. In the new millennium, however, women have increasingly taken active roles in carrying out suicide bombings, hijacking airplanes, and taking hostages in such places as Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, and Chechnya. These women terrorists have been the subject of a substantial amount of media and scholarly attention, but the analysis of women, gender, and terrorism has been sparse and riddled with stereotypical thinking about women's capabilities and motivations. In the first section of this volume, contributors offer an overview of women's participation in and relationships with contemporary terrorism, and a historical chapter traces their involvement in the politics and conflicts of Islamic societies. The next section includes empirical and theoretical analysis of terrorist movements in Chechnya, Kashmir, Palestine, and Sri Lanka. The third section turns to women's involvement in al Qaeda and includes critical interrogations of the gendered media and the scholarly presentations of those women. The conclusion offers ways to further explore the subject of gender and terrorism based on the contributions made to the volume. Contributors to Women, Gender, and Terrorism expand our understanding of terrorism, one of the most troubling and complicated facets of the modern world.

Author : Robin Kirk
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1564320936

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Untold Terror by Robin Kirk Pdf

Author : Carol Harrington
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031070884

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Neoliberal Sexual Violence Politics by Carol Harrington Pdf

This book locates #MeToo’s traction among elites with “womenomics” theories that attribute feminized poverty, welfare dependency, and sexual violence to traditional femininity and toxic masculinity. Such neoliberal anti-sexual violence policies seek to empower women through paid work and reform men through fatherhood. This volume shows that men’s movements and conservative concerns about “fatherless families” developed toxic masculinity discourse before popular feminism incorporated it. It analyses how discourse on #MeToo issues in the workplace reveals a shift away from representations of women as traumatized victims in need of empowerment toward a focus on men as both problem and solution, setting new standards for masculine workplace conduct. However, this discourse reproduces a toxic/good men binary that serves to consolidate a new form of hegemonic masculinity. The book concludes that neoliberal sexual violence politics obscures how globalization fosters inequalities and sexual violence by blaming these and other social ills on toxically masculine men. This book will be of interest to scholars whose research focuses on sexual violence, feminist studies, masculinity studies, and neoliberalism.

Author : Caroline O. N. Moser,Fiona C. Clark, Caroline O. N. Moser
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Conflict (Psychology)
ISBN : 8189013262

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Victims, perpetrators or actors? : gender, armed conflict and political violence by Caroline O. N. Moser,Fiona C. Clark, Caroline O. N. Moser Pdf

Author : Dee L.R. Graham
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814738542

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Loving to Survive by Dee L.R. Graham Pdf

A selection of insights into the relationship between men and women Have you wondered: Why women are more sympathetic than men toward O. J. Simpson? Why women were no more supportive of the Equal Rights Amendment than men? Why women are no more likely than men to support a female political candidate? Why women are no more likely than men to embrace feminism—a movement by, about, and for women? Why some women stay with men who abuse them? Loving to Survive addresses just these issues and poses a surprising answer. Likening women's situation to that of hostages, Dee L. R. Graham and her co- authors argue that women bond with men and adopt men's perspective in an effort to escape the threat of men's violence against them. Dee Graham's announcement, in 1991, of her research on male-female bonding was immediately followed by a national firestorm of media interest. Her startling and provocative conclusion was covered in dozens of national newspapers and heatedly debated. In Loving to Survive, Graham provides us with a complete account of her remarkable insights into relationships between men and women. In 1973, three women and one man were held hostage in one of the largest banks in Stockholm by two ex-convicts. These two men threatened their lives, but also showed them kindness. Over the course of the long ordeal, the hostages came to identify with their captors, developing an emotional bond with them. They began to perceive the police, their prospective liberators, as their enemies, and their captors as their friends, as a source of security. This seemingly bizarre reaction to captivity, in which the hostages and captors mutually bond to one another, has been documented in other cases as well, and has become widely known as Stockholm Syndrome. The authors of this book take this syndrome as their starting point to develop a new way of looking at male-female relationships. Loving to Survive considers men's violence against women as crucial to understanding women's current psychology. Men's violence creates ever-present, and therefore often unrecognized, terror in women. This terror is often experienced as a fear for any woman of rape by any man or as a fear of making any man angry. They propose that women's current psychology is actually a psychology of women under conditions of captivitythat is, under conditions of terror caused by male violence against women. Therefore, women's responses to men, and to male violence, resemble hostages' responses to captors. Loving to Survive explores women's bonding to men as it relates to men's violence against women. It proposes that, like hostages who work to placate their captors lest they kill them, women work to please men, and from this springs women's femininity. Femininity describes a set of behaviors that please men because they communicate a woman's acceptance of her subordinate status. Thus, feminine behaviors are, in essence, survival strategies. Like hostages who bond to their captors, women bond to men in an effort to survive. This is a book that will forever change the way we look at male-female relationships and women's lives.

Author : Lori Poloni-Staudinger,Candice D. Ortbals
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461456414

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Terrorism and Violent Conflict by Lori Poloni-Staudinger,Candice D. Ortbals Pdf

This book explores how gender intersects with political violence, and particularly terrorism. We ask how gender relations and understandings of femininity and masculinity influence political violence, which includes politics related to terrorism, state terrorism, and genocide. We investigate how women cope with and influence the politics of terrorism and genocide. The book’s goals are descriptive and analytical. We (1) describe in what ways women are present (and/or perceived as absent) in political contexts involving violence, and (2) analyze what gender assumptions, identities, and frames women face and themselves express and act upon regarding political violence encountered in their lives. The manuscript is divided into seven chapters: introduction, women as victims/survivors of violence, women as perpetrators of violence, women in social movements responding to violence, women politicians leading policy regarding violence, the public opinion of women and men concerning violence, and a conclusion. Each chapter explores the intersection between gender and terrorism through the lens of the chapter focus.

Author : Carol Harrington
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0754674584

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Politicization of Sexual Violence by Carol Harrington Pdf

The politics of rape was a marginal field until the 1990s when rape suddenly emerged as an international security problem. Carol Harrington traces the historical change in the politicization of rape as an international problem, explaining the fascinating transference of the expert authority gained by early international women's organizations to intergovernmental bureaucracies.