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Interethnic Marriages, the Survival of Women, and the Logics of Genocide in Rwanda
- Genocide Studies and Prevention
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 2, Number 3, Winter 2007
- pp. 235-248
- 10.1353/gsp.2011.0057
- Article
- Additional Information
This article focuses on the gendered dimensions of the genocide in Rwanda. It seeks to explain why Tutsi women married to Hutu men appeared to have better chances of survival than Tutsi women married to Tutsi men or even Hutu women married to Tutsi men. Based on data from a field site in southwest Rwanda, the findings and insights offered here draw on the gendered, racial, and operational dynamics of the genocide as it unfolded between April and July 1994.