Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights

Contents

Contents Introduction: The History of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones 1 Elizabeth D. Heineman I. Sexual Violence in Peace and in Conflict 1. Rape in the American Revolution: Process, Reaction, and Public Re-Creation 25 Sharon Block 2. Sexual Violence in the Politics and Policies of Conquest: Amerindian Women and the Spanish Conquest of Alta California 39 Antonia I. Castañeda 3. Femicide as Terrorism: The Case of Uzbekistan’s Unveiling Murders 56 Marianne Kamp II. The Economy of Conflict-Based Sexual Violence 4. Girls, Women, and the Significance of Sexual Violence in Ancient Warfare 73 Kathy L. Gaca 5. The Victimization of Women in Late Precolonial and Early Colonial Warfare in Tanzania 89 James Giblin III. Tellings of Sexual Violence 6. War Crimes or Atrocity Stories? Anglo-American Narratives of Truth and Deception in the Aftermath of World War I 105 Nicoletta F. Gullace vi Contents 7. Sexual and Nonsexual Violence Against “Politicized Women” in Central Europe After the Great War 122 Robert Gerwarth 8. The “Big Rape”: Sex and Sexual Violence, War, and Occupation in Post-World War II Memory and Imagination 137 Atina Grossmann 9. War as History, Humanity in Violence: Men, Women, and Memories of 1971, East Pakistan/Bangladesh 152 Yasmin Saikia IV. Law and Civilization 10. The Theory and Practice of Female Immunity in the Medieval West 173 Anne Curry 11. Law, War, and Women in Seventeenth-Century England 189 Barbara Donagan 12. “Unlawfully and Against Her Consent”: Sexual Violence and the Military During the American Civil War 202 E. Susan Barber and Charles F. Ritter V. Toward an International Human Rights Framework 13. Legal Responses to World War II Sexual Violence: The Japanese Experience 217 Yuma Totani 14. Toward Accountability for Violence Against Women in War: Progress and Challenges 232 Rhonda Copelon Notes 257 List of Contributors 321 Index 325 Acknowledgments 341 ...