Chapter 8. The “Big Rape”: Sex and Sexual Violence, War, and Occupation in Post-World War II Memory and Imagination

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: The History of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones 1
4. PART I. Sexual Violence in Peace and in Conflict
5. Chapter 1. Rape in the American Revolution: Process, Reaction, and Public Re-Creation 25
6. Chapter 2. Sexual Violence in the Politics and Policies of Conquest: Amerindian Women and the Spanish Conquest of Alta California 39
7. Chapter 3. Femicide as Terrorism: The Case of Uzbekistan’s Unveiling Murders 56
8. PART II. The Economy of Conflict-Based Sexual Violence
9. Chapter 4. Girls, Women, and the Significance of Sexual Violence in Ancient Warfare 73
10. Chapter 5. The Victimization of Women in Late Precolonial and Early Colonial Warfare in Tanzania 89
11. PART III. Tellings of Sexual Violence
12. Chapter 6. War Crimes or Atrocity Stories? Anglo-American Narratives of Truth and Deception in the Aftermath of World War I 105
13. Chapter 7. Sexual and Nonsexual Violence Against “Politicized Women” in Central Europe After the Great War 122
14. Chapter 8. The “Big Rape”: Sex and Sexual Violence, War, and Occupation in Post-World War II Memory and Imagination 137
15. Chapter 9. War as History, Humanity in Violence: Women, Men, and Memories of 1971, East Pakistan/Bangladesh 152
16. PART IV. Law and Civilization
17. Chapter 10. The Theory and Practice of Female Immunity in the Medieval West 173
18. Chapter 11. Law, War, and Women in Seventeenth-Century England 189
19. Chapter 12. “Unlawfully and Against Her Consent”: Sexual Violence and the Military During the American Civil War 202
20. PART V. Toward an International Human Rights Framework
21. Chapter 13. Legal Responses to World War II Sexual Violence: The Japanese Experience 217
22. Chapter 14. Toward Accountability for Violence Against Women in War: Progress and Challenges 232
23. Notes 257
24. Contributors 321
25. Index 325
26. Acknowledgments 341