Sexual Violence and Political Transitions

Tracing Shifting Meanings and Functions of Rape
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-415-72067-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

This volume explores the meanings, nature and function of rape during political transitions, showing that high levels of sexual violence directed mainly against women and children during war-time normally do not cease or dissipate after the end of formal hostilities, and that post-conflict societies experience higher than normal to extremely high levels of sexual violence against women and children. In the process, the book proposes a theory of sexual violence during political transitions that views this form of sexual violence less as a lingering effect of the armed conflict and more as an attempt to construct the new social order as a masculine-heroic order.

Autoren/Hrsg.

du Toit, Louise

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Rape Law Reform on Trial

2. Sexual Specificity and Sexed Rights

3. Rape in Political Transitions

4. Manly States

5. Perpetrators and Citizens

6. Anti-Rape Erotics

Über Autor(innen)

Louise du Toit is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch.