Gender Violence in Peace and War: States of Complicity
edited by Victoria Sanford, Katerina Stefatos and Cecilia M. Salvi contributions by Mike Anastario, Fazil Moradi, Annie Pohlman, Shannon Drysdale Walsh, Maija Jäppinen, Janet Elise Johnson, Serena Cosgrove, Cecilia M. Salvi, Kimberly Theidon, Victoria Sanford, Katerina Stefatos, Sofia Duyos-Álvarez, Kathleen Dill, Laura McAtackney and Melanie Hoewer
Rutgers University Press, 2016 eISBN: 978-0-8135-7619-0 | Paper: 978-0-8135-7617-6 | Cloth: 978-0-8135-7618-3 Library of Congress Classification HV6250.4.W65G477 2016 Dewey Decimal Classification 362.883
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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 BIOGRAPHY
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
"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
"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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Subaltern Bodies. Gender Violence, Sexual Torture, and
Political Repression during the Greek
Military Dictatorship (1967–1974)
Chapter 2. Sexual Violence As A Weapon During The Guatemalan Genocide
Chapter 3. Gender, Incarceration, And Power Relations During The Irish Civil War (1922-1923)
Chapter 4. Resistance And Activism Against State Violence In Chiapas, Mexico
Chapter 5. Medical Records And Evidence Of Mass Rape During the 2007-2008 Postelection Violence in Kenya
Chapter 6. The Force Of Writing In Genocide. On Sexual Violence in al-Anfāl
Operations and Beyond
Chapter 7. Sexualized Bodies, Mutilation, And Torture at the Beginning of Indonesia's New Order Regime (1965-1966)
Chapter 8. Advances And Limits Of Policing And Human Security For Women. Nicaragua in Comparative Perspective
Chapter 9. The State To The Rescue? The Contested Terrain of Domestic
Violence in Postcommunist Russia
Chapter 10. The Absent State. Teen Mothers and New Patriarchal
Forms of Gender Subordination in
the Democratic Republic of Congo
Chapter 11. Anti-Trafficking Legislation, Gender Violence, And The State
Conclusion. Reflections on the Women,
Peace, and Security Agenda
Gender Violence in Peace and War: States of Complicity
edited by Victoria Sanford, Katerina Stefatos and Cecilia M. Salvi contributions by Mike Anastario, Fazil Moradi, Annie Pohlman, Shannon Drysdale Walsh, Maija Jäppinen, Janet Elise Johnson, Serena Cosgrove, Cecilia M. Salvi, Kimberly Theidon, Victoria Sanford, Katerina Stefatos, Sofia Duyos-Álvarez, Kathleen Dill, Laura McAtackney and Melanie Hoewer
Rutgers University Press, 2016 eISBN: 978-0-8135-7619-0 Paper: 978-0-8135-7617-6 Cloth: 978-0-8135-7618-3
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 BIOGRAPHY
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
"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
"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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Cover
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Subaltern Bodies. Gender Violence, Sexual Torture, and
Political Repression during the Greek
Military Dictatorship (1967–1974)
Chapter 2. Sexual Violence As A Weapon During The Guatemalan Genocide
Chapter 3. Gender, Incarceration, And Power Relations During The Irish Civil War (1922-1923)
Chapter 4. Resistance And Activism Against State Violence In Chiapas, Mexico
Chapter 5. Medical Records And Evidence Of Mass Rape During the 2007-2008 Postelection Violence in Kenya
Chapter 6. The Force Of Writing In Genocide. On Sexual Violence in al-Anfāl
Operations and Beyond
Chapter 7. Sexualized Bodies, Mutilation, And Torture at the Beginning of Indonesia's New Order Regime (1965-1966)
Chapter 8. Advances And Limits Of Policing And Human Security For Women. Nicaragua in Comparative Perspective
Chapter 9. The State To The Rescue? The Contested Terrain of Domestic
Violence in Postcommunist Russia
Chapter 10. The Absent State. Teen Mothers and New Patriarchal
Forms of Gender Subordination in
the Democratic Republic of Congo
Chapter 11. Anti-Trafficking Legislation, Gender Violence, And The State
Conclusion. Reflections on the Women,
Peace, and Security Agenda
Notes On Contributors
Index
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