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Theorizing Wartime Rape: Deconstructing Gender, Sexuality, and Violence

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Throughout the history of warfare, rape and other forms of sexual violence against children,
women, and men have been extremely widespread and prolific.1 Despite long-standing legal and
political silences, rape in war has endured as a “lasting legacy” of violent conflict in artistic,
documentary, and cinematic representations throughout history, albeit almost exclusively when
perpetrated against women. The last two centuries, for instance, have witnessed the rapes of
women in Belgium during the First World War; the rapes and murders of Chinese women during
the 1937 invasion of the city of Nanjing; the mass rapes of Filipino women in the town of
Mapanique in 1944; the sexual enslavement of up to 200,000 women throughout Asia during the
Asia-Pacific War; the mass rapes of German women at the end of the Second World War; as well
as the mass rapes of women in modern-day armed conflicts such as Vietnam, Bangladesh, Uganda,
the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste, Peru, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Darfur, Libya, Iraq, and Syria.

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Gender & Society

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Publisher

Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications., 2016

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English

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08912432

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Volume 30, Issue 1, February 2016, pp. 44–56

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