This powerful new book argues that violence against women should be understood as a systemic problem—one for which the state must be held accountable. The essays in Gender Violence in Peace and War examine a variety of cases where the state facilitates, legitimates, or perpetuates violence against women—a continuum that ranges from state-sponsored rape and torture in Guatemala, Indonesia, and Kenya to lax prosecution of domestic violence and sex trafficking in Russia and the United States.
This powerful new book argues that violence against women should be understood as a systemic problem—one for which the state must be held accountable. The essays in Gender Violence in Peace and War examine a variety of cases where the state facilitates, legitimates, or perpetuates violence against women—a continuum that ranges from state-sponsored rape and torture in Guatemala, Indonesia, and Kenya to lax prosecution of domestic violence and sex trafficking in Russia and the United States.
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.
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Contents Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: State Violence, Gender, and Resistance
1. Subaltern Bodies: Gender Violence, Sexual Torture, and Political Repression during the Greek Military Dictatorship (1967–1974) Katerina Stefatos
2. Sexual Violence as a Weapon during the Guatemalan Genocide Victoria Sanford, Sofia Duyos-Álvarez, and Kathleen Dill
3. Gender, Incarceration and Power Relations during the Irish Civil War (1922–1923) Laura McAtackney
4. Resistance and Activism against State Violence in Chiapas, Mexico Melanie Hoewer
Part Two: The Continuum of Sexual Violence and the Role of the State
5. Medical Record Review and Evidence of Mass Rape during the 2007/2008 Period of Post-Election Violence in Kenya Mike Anastario
6. The Force of Writing in Genocide: On Sexual Violence in the al-Anfal Operations and Beyond Fazil Moradi
7. Sexualized Bodies, Public Mutilation, and Torture at the Beginning of Indonesia’s New Order Regime (1965–66) Annie Pohlman
Part Three: State Responses to Gender Violence
8. Advances and Limits of Policing and Human Security for Women: Nicaragua in Comparative Perspective Shannon Drysdale Walsh
9. The State to the Rescue? The Contested Terrain of Domestic Violence in Post-Communist Russia Maija Jäppinen and Janet Elise Johnson
10. The Absent State: Teen Mothers and New Patriarchal Forms of Gender Subordination Serena Cosgrove
11. Anti-Trafficking Legislation, Gender Violence, and the State Cecilia M. Salvi
Conclusion: Sex at the Security Council: Reflections on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Kimberly Theidon
