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Alison, Miranda H., 1976-. (2007) Wartime sexual violence: women’s human rights and questions of masculinity. Review of International Studies, Vol.33 (No.1). pp. 75-90. 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
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
Date:	January 2007
Volume:	Vol.33
Number:	No.1
Page Range:	pp. 75-90
Identification Number:	10.1017/S0260210507007310
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/953