Plight and Fate of Women During and Following Genocide

Informationen zum Autor Samuel Totten Klappentext The plight and fate of female victims during the course of genocide is radically and profoundly different from their male counterparts Zusammenfassung The plight and fate of female victims during the course of genocide is radically and profoundly different from their male counterparts Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Samuel Totten 1. Women and the Armenian Genocide: The Victim, the Living Martyr - Rubina Peroomian 2. Women and the Holocaust - Helene J. Sinnreich 3. The Bangladesh Genocide: The Plight of Women - Angela Debnath 4. Death, Shattered Families, and Living as Widows in Cambodia - Judy Ledgerwood 5. The Plight and Fate of Women During the Crisis in the Former Yugoslavia - Ivana Macek 6. The Plight and Fate of Females During and Following the 1994 Rwandan Genocide - Samuel Totten 7. The Darfur Genocide: The Mass Rape of Black African Girls and Women - Samuel Totten 8. Rape as Genocide - Frances T. Pilch 9. The Evolution of Gender Crimes in International Law - Nicole Hallett 10. Prosecution of Gender-Based Acts of Genocide under International Law - Valerie Oosterveld 11. The Post-Genocidal Period and Its Impact on Women - Tazreena Sajjad Contributors Index

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Totten, Totten Samuel
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2009
• EAN: 9781412808279
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-0827-9
• No. of pages: 283
• Series: Genocide Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, HISTORY / Women, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing