Rape in Wartime A History to be Written

A new reflection on rape in wartime, this collection of essays presents 14 case studies, covering conflicts from across the globe, including Greece, Bangladesh, Columbia, Chechnya, Israel, India, Nigeria and Europe. Providing a truly global and interdisciplinary approach - including offerings from experts in legal, anthropological, cultural and gender studies - the authors examine the context in which wartime rape occurs, the specificity of rape as a universally recognised transgression, the place of large scale rape in public memories of war and the long term legacies of rape. They also confront the challenge of writing about intimate forms of violence from both the human and scientific perspective.

RAPHAELLE BRANCHE is an historian at University of Paris-I, France. She is a specialist in French colonial history and works broadly on violence. Her book on Torture during the Algerian War was a groundbreaking work (Gallimard). She has many chapters in English including in Herzog (ed.), Brutality and Desire (Palgrave) and Scheipers (ed.), Prisoners in War (Oxford).


FABRICE VIRGILI is an historian at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France. He is a specialist in violence and gender in World War II. His book on women who had their hair shaved in Liberated France was a groundbreaking work (Shorn Women, Berg). He also published in English some papers about French/German war children, world wars and gender identities or rapes committed by US soldiers in Europe.

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Writing about Rape in Wartime; R.Branche, I.Delpla, J.Horne, P.Lagrou, D.Palmieri & F.Virgili
Categorizing Rape in the Military Law of Modern Russia; M.G.Muravyeva
The Unquestioned Crime. Sexual Violence by German Soldiers during the 'War of Annihilation' in the Soviet Union 1941–45; R.Mühlhäuser
The Victimization of the Body and the Body Politic during the Greek Civil War, 1945-1949; K.Stefatos
Mass Rape and the Inscription of Gendered and Racial Domination during the Bangladesh War of 1971; N.Mookherjee
Rape, Blaming the Victim and Social Control in Paramilitary Enclaves: An Approach to the Case of Colombia; N.Suarez Bonilla
After 'Teutonic Fury', ''Belgian Fury'? Fact and Fiction in the Revenge of Belgian Soldiers in the Rhineland (1923); A.Godfroid
The Practices of War, Terror and Imagination: Moor Troops and Rapes during the Spanish Civil War; M.Joly
Promising Rape: Private Militias against Maoist Guerrillas in the State of Bihar (India); A.Soucaille
The Weight of Imagination: Rapes and the Legend of Women Snipers in Chechnya; A.Regamey
Breaking the Silence: New Approaches to the Consequences of Rape in some African Conflicts, 1994-2008; N.Puechguirbal
The Body that Writes: Reflections on the Process of Writing about Wartime Rape Avoidance in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; T.Nitsan
The Nigerian Civil War of 1967 and the Stigmatization of Children Born of Rape Victims in Edo State; A.D.Ikuomola
'Special Decisions' Children Born as the Result of German Rape and Handed over to Public Assistance during the Great War (1914-1918); A.Rivière
The Russians and Germans: Rape during the War and Post-Soviet Memories; N.M.Naimark
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