About the Book
This collection offers a new reflection on rape in war time through 15 case studies, ranging from Greece to Nigeria. It questions the specificity of rape as a universal transgression, its place in memories of war, its legacies, including children born from rape, and the challenge of writing about intimate violence as both a scientist and a human.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Writing about Rape in Wartime; R.Branche , I.Delpla , J.Horne , P.Lagrou , D.Palmieri F.Virgili Categorizing Rape in the Military Law of Modern Russia; M.G.Muravyeva The Unquestioned Crime. Sexual Violence by German Soldiers during the 'War of Annihilation' in the Soviet Union 1941–45; R.Mühlhäuser The Victimization of the Body and the Body Politic during the Greek Civil War, 1945-1949; K.Stefatos Mass Rape and the Inscription of Gendered and Racial Domination during the Bangladesh War of 1971; N.Mookherjee Rape, Blaming the Victim and Social Control in Paramilitary Enclaves: An Approach to the Case of Colombia; N.Suarez Bonilla After 'Teutonic Fury', ''Belgian Fury'? Fact and Fiction in the Revenge of Belgian Soldiers in the Rhineland (1923); A.Godfroid The Practices of War, Terror and Imagination: Moor Troops and Rapes during the Spanish Civil War; M.Joly Promising Rape: Private Militias against Maoist Guerrillas in the State of Bihar (India); A.Soucaille The Weight of Imagination: Rapes and the Legend of Women Snipers in Chechnya; A.Regamey Breaking the Silence: New Approaches to the Consequences of Rape in some African Conflicts, 1994-2008; N.Puechguirbal The Body that Writes: Reflections on the Process of Writing about Wartime Rape Avoidance in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; T.Nitsan The Nigerian Civil War of 1967 and the Stigmatization of Children Born of Rape Victims in Edo State; A.D.Ikuomola 'Special Decisions' Children Born as the Result of German Rape and Handed over to Public Assistance during the Great War (1914-1918); A.Rivière The Russians and Germans: Rape during the War and Post-Soviet Memories; N.M.Naimark Index
About the Author :
NATALIA SUAREZ BONILLA Associate Professor University del Valle, Colombia
ISABELLE DELPLA Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University Montpellier III, France
ANNE GODFROID Doctorate Student working on the Belgian occupation of the Rhineland (Royal Military Academy, Brussels), Belgium
JOHN HORNE Professor of Modern European History, Trinity College Dublin, a Fellow of TCD and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Ireland
ADEDIRAN DANIEL IKUOMOLA Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko; Ondo State, Nigeria
MAUD JOLY PhD student in History at Sciences-Po (Paris) and a former member of the Casa de Velázquez, Spain
PIETER LAGROU teaches history at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
NAYANIKA MOOKHERJEE Reader of Social Anthropology in Durham University, UK
REGINA MÜLHAÜSER Historian, Ph.D., and Researcher at the Hamburg Foundation for the
Advancement of Research and Culture, Germany
MARIANNA G. MURAVYEVA Associate Professor of Law at Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Russia
NORMAN NAIMARK Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies at Stanford University, US
TAL NITSAN Anthropology PhD Candidate at the University of British Columbia and a scholar at The Liu Institute for Global Issues, US
DANIEL PALMIERI Historical Research Officer at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva
NADINE PUECHGUIRBAL Women and War Advisor for the International Committee of the RedCross (ICRC), Geneva
AMANDINE REGAMEY teaches Russian language and civilisation at University Paris I (Pantheon Sorbonne), and is an associate member of the Centre for Russian, Caucasian and Central Asian Studies (CERCEC EHESS/CNRS), France
ANTOINE RIVIÈRE PhD Student in History at the University of Paris-IV-Sorbonne, France
ALEXANDRE SOUCAILLE Research Fellow at the CNRS, Paris, France
KATHERINE STEFATOS PhD Student at the Politics Department of Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Review :
'Although war facilitates rape, it does so in distinctive contexts and to varying levels in different settings. Rape in Wartime examines perpetrators within the legitimate military services, paramilitary groups, guerrilla units, and civilians. Similarly, the book highlights how sexual violence in conflict has a multitude functions.
Branche and Virgili's volume illustrates what rigorous historical scholarship about rape in times of conflict can tell us about the contexts that trigger such atrocities. Importantly, it also explores how sexual violence is not a feature of all conflicts.'
-Joanna Bourke, Department of History, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
'There is a pressing need for substance in this increasingly emotional debate. Rape in Wartime contributes that substance in a collection of meticulously researched, carefully argued, and painstakingly translated essays from diverse scholars who studied rape globally and historically. It provides a brilliant combination of military history, anthropology, and legal studies that are perfectly balanced by a feminist perspective. This anthology is an ideal work for commissioned and non-commissioned officers who are facing cultural reform regarding gender roles in the military and the integration of women into combat units. Rape in Wartime is a substantive, concise, and readable book on women in combat and rape that occurs during wars.' - Military Review
