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Gender Violence in Peace and War
States of Complicity
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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.
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VICTORIA SANFORD is professor and chair of anthropology, as well as director of the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies at Lehman College, and doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of many books including Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala, and is the coeditor of Engaged Observer: Activism, Advocacy, and Anthropology.
KATERINA STEFATOS is an adjunct assistant professor at Lehman College (CUNY) and serves as the Hellenic Studies Program Coordinator at Columbia University in New York.
CECILIA SALVI is a doctoral student at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
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"This wide-ranging volume documents the complicity of states in gender violence, from state perpetration of strategic sexual violence in some conflict settings – in Greece, Guatemala, Iraq, among others – to the neglect by states worldwide of women’s security and other basic needs in both war and peace. Essential reading for scholars and practitioners alike."
— Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1 - Part I: State Violence, Gender, and Resistance
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1. Subaltern Bodies: Gender Violence, Sexual Torture, and Political Repression during the Greek Military Dictatorship (1967–1974)
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2. Sexual Violence as a Weapon during the Guatemalan Genocide
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3. Gender, Incarceration, and Power Relations during the Irish Civil War (1922–1923)
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4. Resistance and Activism against State Violence in Chiapas, Mexico
64 - Part II: The Continuum of Sexual Violence and the Role of the State
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5. Medical Record Review and Evidence of Mass Rape during the 2007–2008 Postelection Violence in Kenya
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6. The Force of Writing in Genocide: On Sexual Violence in the al-Anfāl Operations and Beyond
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7. Sexualized Bodies, Public Mutilation, and Torture at the Beginning of Indonesia’s New Order Regime (1965–1966)
116 - Part III: State Responses to Gender Violence
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8. Advances and Limits of Policing and Human Security for Women: Nicaragua in Comparative Perspective
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9. The State to the Rescue? The Contested Terrain of Domestic Violence in Postcommunist Russia
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10. The Absent State: Teen Mothers and New Patriarchal Forms of Gender Subordination in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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11. Anti-Trafficking Legislation, Gender Violence, and the State
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Conclusion: Reflections on the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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Keywords for this book
anthropology; gender studies; women's studies; womens studies; womens' studies; human rights; rutgers; rutgers university; rutgers university press; genocide; political violence; social science; violence in society; culture; cultural science; cultural studies; war zones; victimization; terror against women; violence; gender violence; essays; scholarship; violence against women; Ireland; Indonesia; Guatemala; torture; sexual assault; domestic abuse; domestic abuse policies; Russian Federation; Russia; anti-trafficking laws; U.S. policy; us policy; american policy; american law; us law; u.s. law; human trafficking; trafficking; political science; history; legal studies; world history; global issues; women's rights; womens rights; womens' rights; war; conflict; peacetime
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