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Rape in Wartime

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  1. Raphaëlle Branche

    1. Université de Paris-1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

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  2. Fabrice Virgili

    1. Université de Paris-1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

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Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Writing the History of Rape in Wartime

    • Raphaëlle Branche, Isabelle Delpla, John Horne, Pieter Lagrou, Daniel Palmieri, Fabrice Virgili
    Pages 1-16

  3. Categorising Rape in the Military Law of Modern Russia

    • Marianna G. Muravyeva
    Pages 17-33

  4. The Unquestioned Crime: Sexual Violence by German Soldiers during the War of Annihilation in the Soviet Union, 1941–45

    • Regina Mühlhäuser
    Pages 34-46

  5. The Victimisation of the Body and the Body Politic during the Greek Civil War, 1946–49

    • Katherine Stefatos
    Pages 47-66

  6. Mass Rape and the Inscription of Gendered and Racial Domination during the Bangladesh War of 1971

    • Nayanika Mookherjee
    Pages 67-78

  7. Rape, Blaming the Victim and Social Control in Paramilitary Enclaves: An Approach to the Case of Colombia

    • Natalia Suarez Bonilla
    Pages 79-89

  8. After “Teutonic Fury”, “Belgian Fury”? Fact and Fiction in the Revenge of Belgian Soldiers in the Rhineland in 1923

    • Anne Godfroid
    Pages 90-102

  9. The Practices of War, Terror and Imagination: Moor Troops and Rapes during the Spanish Civil War

    • Maud Joly
    Pages 103-114

  10. Promising Rape: Private Militias against Maoist Guerrillas in the State of Bihar (India)

    • Alexandre Soucaille
    Pages 115-127

  11. The Weight of Imagination: Rapes and the Legend of Women Snipers in Chechnya

    • Amandine Régamey
    Pages 128-139

  12. Breaking the Silence: New Approaches to the Consequences of Rape in Some African Conflicts, 1994–2008

    • Nadine Puechguirbal
    Pages 140-152

  13. The Body That Writes: Reflections on the Process of Writing about Wartime Rape Avoidance in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    • Tal Nitsán
    Pages 153-168

  14. The Nigerian Civil War of 1967 and the Stigmatisation of Children Born of Rape Victims in Edo State

    • Adediran Daniel Ikuomola
    Pages 169-183

  15. “Special Decisions” Children Born as the Result of German Rape and Handed Over to Public Assistance during the Great War (1914–18)

    • Antoine Rivière
    Pages 184-200

  16. The Russians and Germans: Rape during the War and Post-Soviet Memories

    • Norman M. Naimark
    Pages 201-219

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 220-237
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About this book

This collection offers a new reflection on rape in war time through 15 case studies, ranging from Greece to Nigeria. It questions the specificity of rape as a universal transgression, its place in memories of war, its legacies, including children born from rape, and the challenge of writing about intimate violence as both a scientist and a human.

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'Although war facilitates rape, it does so in distinctive contexts and to varying levels in different settings. Rape in Wartime examines perpetrators within the legitimate military services, paramilitary groups, guerrilla units, and civilians. Similarly, the book highlights how sexual violence in conflict has a multitude functions.

Branche and Virgili's volume illustrates what rigorous historical scholarship about rape in times of conflict can tell us about the contexts that trigger such atrocities. Importantly, it also explores how sexual violence is not a feature of all conflicts.'

-Joanna Bourke, Department of History, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

'There is a pressing need for substance in this increasingly emotional debate. Rape in Wartime contributes that substance in a collection of meticulously researched, carefully argued, and painstakingly translated essays from diverse scholars who studied rape globally and historically. It provides a brilliant combination of military history, anthropology, and legal studies that are perfectly balanced by a feminist perspective. This anthology is an ideal work for commissioned and non-commissioned officers who are facing cultural reform regarding gender roles in the military and the integration of women into combat units. Rape in Wartime is a substantive, concise, and readable book on women in combat and rape that occurs during wars.' - Military Review

Editors and Affiliations

  • Université de Paris-1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

    Raphaëlle Branche, Fabrice Virgili

About the editors

NATALIA SUAREZ BONILLA Associate Professor University del Valle, Colombia ISABELLE DELPLA Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University Montpellier III, France ANNE GODFROID Doctorate Student working on the Belgian occupation of the Rhineland (Royal Military Academy, Brussels), Belgium JOHN HORNE Professor of Modern European History, Trinity College Dublin, a Fellow of TCD and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Ireland ADEDIRAN DANIEL IKUOMOLA Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko; Ondo State, Nigeria MAUD JOLY PhD student in History at Sciences-Po (Paris) and a former member of the Casa de Velázquez, Spain PIETER LAGROU teaches history at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium NAYANIKA MOOKHERJEE Reader of Social Anthropology in Durham University, UK REGINA MÜLHAÜSER Historian, Ph.D., and Researcher at the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture, Germany MARIANNA G. MURAVYEVA Associate Professor of Law at Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Russia NORMAN NAIMARK Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies at Stanford University, US TAL NITSAN Anthropology PhD Candidate at the University of British Columbia and a scholar at The Liu Institute for Global Issues, US DANIEL PALMIERI Historical Research Officer at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva NADINE PUECHGUIRBAL Women and War Advisor for the International Committee of the RedCross (ICRC), Geneva AMANDINE REGAMEY teaches Russian language and civilisation at University Paris I (Pantheon Sorbonne), and is an associate member of the Centre for Russian, Caucasian and Central Asian Studies (CERCEC EHESS/CNRS), France ANTOINE RIVIÈRE PhD Student in History at the University of Paris-IV-Sorbonne, France ALEXANDRE SOUCAILLE Research Fellow at the CNRS, Paris, France KATHERINE STEFATOS PhD Student at the Politics Department of Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

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