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Alison, Miranda H. (2007) Wartime sexual violence: women’s human rights and questions of masculinity. Review of International Studies, Vol.33 (No.1). pp. 75-90. doi:10.1017/S0260210507007310 ISSN 0260-2105.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0260210507007310
Abstract
This article examines wartime sexual violence, one of the most recurring wartime human rights abuses. It asserts that our theorisations need further development, particularly in regard to the way that masculinities and the intersections with constructions of ethnicity feature in wartime sexual violence. The article also argues that although women and girls are the predominant victims of sexual violence and men and boys the predominant agents, we must also be able to account for the presence of male victims and female agents. This, however, engenders a problem; much of the women’s human rights discourse and existing international mechanisms for addressing wartime sexual violence tend to reify the male-perpetrator/female-victim paradigm. This is a problem which feminist human rights theorists and activists need to address.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | War crimes, Rape as a weapon of war, Human rights, Sexual abuse victims, Masculinity | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Review of International Studies | ||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||
ISSN: | 0260-2105 | ||||
Official Date: | January 2007 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.33 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 75-90 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S0260210507007310 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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