Politicization of Sexual Violence

From Abolitionism to Peacekeeping
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-7546-7458-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Reihe: Gender in a Global/Local World

In the 1990s, feminist scholars on the politics of rape experienced a sudden surge of interest in their, until then, marginal field. Why was the 1990s the right time for rape to become an international security problem? Furthermore, why suddenly in the 1990s did rape become problematized as an international issue not just by the feminist fringes of protest movements but also by intergovernmental bureaucracies? To explore these questions, Carol Harrington traces the historical change in the politicization of rape as an international problem and explains how early international women's organizations gained expert authority on rape by drawing on abolitionist rhetoric of bodily integrity. She discusses why they abandoned their politicization of rape in the inter-war period and why rape only reappeared as an international security question requiring gender expertise on trauma after the Cold War.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harrington, Carol

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Politicization of Sexual Violence

Über Autor(innen)

Lecturer, School of Social and Cultural Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.