This volume explores the meanings, nature and function of rape during political transitions, showing that high levels of sexual violence directed mainly against women and children during war-time normally do not cease or dissipate after the end of formal hostilities, and that post-conflict societies experience higher than normal to extremely high levels of sexual violence against women and children. In the process, the book proposes a theory of sexual violence during political transitions that views this form of sexual violence less as a lingering effect of the armed conflict and more as an attempt to construct the new social order as a masculine-heroic order.
| ISBN: | 9780415720670 |
| Publication date: | 31st December 2023 |
| Author: | Louise Du Toit |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Gender and Society |
| Genres: |
Social theory Feminism and feminist theory Gender studies: women and girls |
This volume explores the meanings, nature and function of rape during political transitions, showing that high levels of sexual violence directed mainly against women and children during war-time normally do not cease or dissipate after the end of formal hostilities, and that post-conflict societies experience higher than normal to extremely high levels of sexual violence against women and children. In the process, the book proposes a theory of sexual violence during political transitions that views this form of sexual violence less as a lingering effect of the armed conflict and more as an attempt to construct the new social order as a masculine-heroic order.
Sexual Violence and Political Transitions features in the following genres: Social theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls
Sexual Violence and Political Transitions is available in Hardback
Sexual Violence and Political Transitions was written by Louise Du Toit and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Sexual Violence and Political Transitions has 160 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Research in Gender and Society series