Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict - Feminist Interventions in International Law

"A wide-ranging critique of legal and transnational approaches to sexual violence in armed conflict and how rape, in particular, developed as a central focus within the women's human rights movement"--

About the author

Karen Engle is the Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas at Austin, where she founded and co-directs the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. She is the author of The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy (2010), which received the APSA Human Rights Section Best Book Award.

Summary

"A wide-ranging critique of legal and transnational approaches to sexual violence in armed conflict and how rape, in particular, developed as a central focus within the women's human rights movement"--

Product details

• Authors: Karen Engle
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781503611245
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-1124-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Stanford Studies in Human Righ; Stanford Studies in Human Rights
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Internationales Recht, Anthropologie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, LAW / International, Legal Reference / Law Profession, LAW / Civil Rights