Wartime Sexual Violence Against Men - Masculinities and Power in Conflict Zones

Cases of sexual violence against men have been documented in a great number of conflicts and wars, both ancient and contemporary. Despite this growing empirical evidence, there is still a dearth of analyses on this type of violence, which stands in stark contrast with the abundant literature dealing with sexual violence against women.

Based on a fieldwork conducted primarily in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, this book proposes to look at wartime sexual violence against men as a performative gendered act that, stemming from the same logic underpinning sexual violence against women, (re-)affirms a gendered social hierarchy.

The book explores patterns of wartime sexual violence against men, and presents survivors', but also perpetrators' stories. The book proceeds to analysing the context in which this type of violence can be understood, narrated, but also addressed, either through support programs for survivors, or through legal means.

List of contents

1. Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Against Men: An Overview / 2. Making Sense of Wartime Sexual Violence Against Men / 3. Surviving Wartime Sexual Violence / 4. Perpetrators and Bystanders / 5. The Elusiveness of Narratives on Wartime Sexual Violence Against Men / 6. Conceptualizing and Implementing Care and Support Programs for Male Survivors / 7. Prosecuting Wartime Sexual Violence Against Men

About the author

Élise Féron is a senior researcher at the Tampere Peace Research Institute. She previously was a senior lecturer in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent (UK). She is also an invited professor at the Université Lumière de Bujumbura (Burundi) where she co-convenes a Gender Studies Master Programme.

Product details

• Authors: Elise Feron, Élise Féron, FERON ELISE
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781786609298
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-929-8
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Men and Masculinities in a Tra; Men and Masculinities in a Transnational World; Men and Masculinities in a Transnational World
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Africa, Civil War, Conflict Zones, Gender, Masculinity, Men, Narrative, Peacebuilding, Surviving, Victimization, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Gender studies, gender groups, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Peace studies & conflict resolution