Overview

This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding war rape and its impact, through empirical examination of the case of Bosnia. Providing a contextual understanding of sexual violence in war, and situating Bosnian war rape in relation to subsequent conflicts, the book offers a methodological outline of how sexual violence in war can be studied from a political-psychological perspective. It presents empirical findings from the field that show what war rape can entail in the aftermath of armed conflict for victims and their communities. Through its comprehensive approach to Bosnian experiences, the volume expands the conceptualization of victimhood and challenges the assumption that sexual violence is a particularly difficult theme to study because of victim silence. Rather, the author demonstrates there are many voices that can provide insight and understandings of war rape and its impact without having to compromise the safety and privacy of individual victims. Finally, the book shows the ways in which individual experiences of war rape are shaped by national and international discourses on gender, sexuality and politics. This book will be of interest to students of political psychology, war and conflict studies, European politics, ethnic conflict, politics and IR in general.

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Author:   Inger Skjelsbæk
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.294kg
ISBN:  

9780415723916

ISBN 10:   0415723914
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   07 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Designing a Study of the Aftermath of the War Rapes in Bosnia 3. Victim and Survivor: Narrated Social Identities of Women who Experienced Rape during the War 4. What Do We Know about War Rapes before the 1990s? 5. The Turning Points in the 1990s which Created a New Understanding of War Rape 6. The First Generation of Systematic Documentation of Sexual Violence in War 1990–1998: Naming the Unnamable and Understanding the Incomprehensible 7. Therapeutic Work with Victims of Sexual Violence War and Post-War 8. Traditions and Transitions: Perceptions of ‘Good Womanhood’ among Twenty Bosnian Focus Group Participants 9. Beyond Bosnia: International Efforts to Move from Accounting to Accountability 10. The Political Psychology of War Rape

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Inger Skjelsbæk is Senior Researcher and Deputy Director at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway. She is the co-editor of Gender, Peace and Conflict.

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