Politicization of sexual violence from abolitionism to peacekeeping
In the 1990s, feminist scholars on the politics of rape experienced a sudden surge of interest in their, until then, marginal field. Why was the 1990s the right time for rape to become an international security problem? Furthermore, why suddenly in the 1990s did rape become problematized as an inter...
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Routledge
2016
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Documenting sexual violence as a problem of individual freedom
- 2. Unspeakable outrages and expertise on women's problems
- 3. Atrocity propaganda, international organizations and the science of peace
- 4. Silence on sexual violence? World War II and the United Nations women's bureaucracy
- 5. Pathologizing unfreedom : Western Cold War models of human rights and public mental health
- 6. The medicalization of peacekeeping and government of sexual and gender-based violence
- 7. Gender experts and gender police : policing the peacekeepers and empowering women?
- 8. Knowledge and techniques for governing sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA).