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Drawing on examples from the ancient world to the two world wars, from the conquest of the Americas to Muslim Central Asia, this collection of essays brings together historical work with human rights scholarship to explore the history of wartime sexual violence, its long-term consequences, and transitions to peacetime society.
List of contents
Introduction: The History of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones -Elizabeth D. Heineman I. Sexual Violence in Peace and in Conflict 1. Rape in the American Revolution: Process, Reaction, and Public Re-Creation -Sharon Block 2. Sexual Violence in the Politics and Policies of Conquest: Amerindian Women and the Spanish Conquest of Alta California -Antonia I. Castaneda 3. Femicide as Terrorism: The Case of Uzbekistan's Unveiling Murders -Marianne Kamp II. The Economy of Conflict-Based Sexual Violence 4. Girls, Women, and the Significance of Sexual Violence in Ancient Warfare -Kathy L. Gaca 5. The Victimization of Women in Late Precolonial and Early Colonial Warfare in Tanzania -James Giblin III. Tellings of Sexual Violence 6. War Crimes or Atrocity Stories? Anglo-American Narratives of Truth and Deception in the Aftermath of World War I -Nicoletta F. Gullace 7. Sexual and Nonsexual Violence Against "Politicized Women" in Central Europe After the Great War -Robert Gerwarth 8. The "Big Rape": Sex and Sexual Violence, War, and Occupation in Post-World War II Memory and Imagination -Atina Grossmann 9. War as History, Humanity in Violence: Men, Women, and Memories of 1971, East Pakistan/Bangladesh -Yasmin Saikia IV. Law and Civilization 10. The Theory and Practice of Female Immunity in the Medieval West -Anne Curry 11. Law, War, and Women in Seventeenth-Century England -Barbara Donagan 12. "Unlawfully and Against Her Consent": Sexual Violence and the Military During the American Civil War -E. Susan Barber and Charles F. Ritter V. Toward an International Human Rights Framework 13. Legal Responses to World War II Sexual Violence: The Japanese Experience -Yuma Totani 14. Toward Accountability for Violence Against Women in War: Progress and Challenges -Rhonda Copelon Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
About the author
Elizabeth D. Heineman is Associate Professor of History and of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa.
