Gender Violence in Peace and War: States of Complicity

Published by Rutgers University Press 2016

Gender Violence in Peace and War

States of Complicity

Edited by: Victoria Sanford , Katerina Stefatos and Cecilia M. Salvi
With contributions by: Victoria Sanford , Katerina Stefatos , Sofia Duyos-Álvarez , Kathleen Dill , Laura McAtackney , Melanie Hoewer , Mike Anastario , Fazil Moradi , Annie Pohlman , Shannon Drysdale Walsh , Maija Jäppinen , Janet Elise Johnson , Serena Cosgrove , Cecilia M. Salvi and Kimberly Theidon

In the series Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights

https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813576206

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About this book

Reports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of women, who are frequently raped, tortured, beaten, and pressed into sexual servitude. Yet this reign of terror against women not only occurs during exceptional moments of social collapse, but during peacetime too. As this powerful book argues, violence against women should be understood as a systemic problem—one for which the state must be held accountable.

The twelve essays in Gender Violence in Peace and War present a continuum of cases where the state enables violence against women—from state-sponsored torture to lax prosecution of sexual assault. Some contributors uncover buried histories of state violence against women throughout the twentieth century, in locations as diverse as Ireland, Indonesia, and Guatemala. Others spotlight ongoing struggles to define the state’s role in preventing gendered violence, from domestic abuse policies in the Russian Federation to anti-trafficking laws in the United States.

Bringing together cutting-edge research from political science, history, gender studies, anthropology, and legal studies, this collection offers a comparative analysis of how the state facilitates, legitimates, and perpetuates gender violence worldwide. The contributors also offer vital insights into how states might adequately protect women’s rights in peacetime, as well as how to intervene when a state declares war on its female citizens.

Author / Editor information

VICTORIA SANFORD is professor and chair of anthropology, as well as director of the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies at Lehman College, and doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of many books including Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala, and is the coeditor of Engaged Observer: Activism, Advocacy, and Anthropology.

KATERINA STEFATOS is an adjunct assistant professor at Lehman College (CUNY) and serves as the Hellenic Studies Program Coordinator at Columbia University in New York.

CECILIA SALVI is a doctoral student at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Reviews

"In this excellent book, the contributors consistently and compellingly question our assumptions about the state and gender violence in ways that will ground forthcoming scholarly conversations."

— Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber, City College of New York

"This wide-ranging volume documents the complicity of states in gender violence, from state perpetration of strategic sexual violence in some conflict settings – in Greece, Guatemala, Iraq, among others – to the neglect by states worldwide of women’s security and other basic needs in both war and peace. Essential reading for scholars and practitioners alike."

— Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Victoria Sanford, Katerina Stefatos and Cecilia M. Salvi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: State Violence, Gender, and Resistance
1. Subaltern Bodies: Gender Violence, Sexual Torture, and Political Repression during the Greek Military Dictatorship (1967–1974) Katerina Stefatos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. Sexual Violence as a Weapon during the Guatemalan Genocide Victoria Sanford and Sofĺa Duyos Álvarez-Arenas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
3. Gender, Incarceration, and Power Relations during the Irish Civil War (1922–1923) Laura Mcatackney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
4. Resistance and Activism against State Violence in Chiapas, Mexico Melanie Hoewer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Part II: The Continuum of Sexual Violence and the Role of the State
5. Medical Record Review and Evidence of Mass Rape during the 2007–2008 Postelection Violence in Kenya Mike Anastario Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
6. The Force of Writing in Genocide: On Sexual Violence in the al-Anfāl Operations and Beyond Fazil Moradi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
7. Sexualized Bodies, Public Mutilation, and Torture at the Beginning of Indonesia’s New Order Regime (1965–1966) Annie Pohlman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Part III: State Responses to Gender Violence
8. Advances and Limits of Policing and Human Security for Women: Nicaragua in Comparative Perspective Shannon Drysdale Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
9. The State to the Rescue? The Contested Terrain of Domestic Violence in Postcommunist Russia Maija Jäppinen and Janet Elise Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
10. The Absent State: Teen Mothers and New Patriarchal Forms of Gender Subordination in the Democratic Republic of Congo Serena Cosgrove Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
11. Anti-Trafficking Legislation, Gender Violence, and the State Cecilia M. Salvi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Conclusion: Reflections on the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda Kimberly Theidon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203

Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 226
Illustrations
- Other: 4 photographs, 7 figures, 1 ta
Keywords: IPV; domestic abuse; domestic assault; abusive husband; abusive wife; abusive; homeless; homelessness; IPV survivor; partner violence; intimate partner violence; war; public policy; domestic abuse policy; anti-trafficking law; women's rights; legal studies; war zone; victimization

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Published: September 16, 2016
ISBN: 9780813576206