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Rape loot pillage : the political economy of sexual violence in armed conflict / Sara Meger.
Author
Meger, Sara
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Language
English
Published/Created
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Description
viii, 238 pages ; 24 cm.
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Oxford Scholarship - Oxford University Press: Political Science
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JZ6405.W66 M44 2016
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Women and war
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Rape as a weapon of war
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Women
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Violence against
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Sex crimes
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Violence
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Economic aspects
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War
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Economic aspects
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Series
Oxford studies in gender and international relations
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Rape and other forms of sexual violence have always been a feature of war. Yet it is only recently that researchers have identified rape as a deliberate tool of war-making rather than simply an inevitable side effect of armed conflict. Much of the emerging literature has suggested that the underlying causes of rape stem from a single motivation - whether individual, symbolic, or strategic - leading to disagreement in the field about how we can understand and respond to the causes and consequences of sexual violence in war. In Rape Loot Pillage, Sara Meger argues that sexual violence is a form of gender-based political violence (perpetrated against both men and women) and a manifestation of unequal gender relations that are exacerbated by the social, political, and economic conditions of war. She looks at trends in the form and function of sexual violence in recent and ongoing conflicts to contend that, in different contexts, sexual violence takes different forms and is used in pursuit of different objectives. For this reason, no single framework for addressing conflict-related sexual violence will be sufficient. Taking a political economy perspective, Meger maintains that these variations can be explained by broader struggles over territory, assets, and other productive resources that motivate contemporary armed conflicts. Sexual violence is a reflection of global political economic struggles, and can't be addressed only at the local level - it must be addressed through regional and international policy. She concludes by providing some initial ideas about how this can be done via the UN and national governments. -- From dust jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-225) and index.
Contents
The securitization of sexual violence
Toward a feminist political economy of sexual violence in war
A preliminary typology of wartime sexual violence
Sexual violence as an instrument of terror/torture
Sexual violence as a weapon of war
Sexual violence as an element of genocide
The political economy of sexual violence in the DRC
Sexual violence against men and boys in armed conflict
From fetishization to politicization and gendered peace.
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ISBN
9780190277666 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
0190277661 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016000074
OCLC
940455277
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40026764168
40026623065
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