Bibliograph

Politicization of sexual violence, from abolitionism to peacekeeping, Carol Harrington

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Politicization of sexual violence, from abolitionism to peacekeeping, Carol Harrington

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-225) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Politicization of sexual violence

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Carol Harrington

Series statement

Gender in a global/local world

Sub title

from abolitionism to peacekeeping

Summary

This text explains how early international women's organizations gained expert authority on rape by drawing on abolitionist rhetoric of bodily integrity. It also explores why they abandoned their politicization of rape in the inter-war period., In the 1990s, feminist scholars on the politics of rape experienced a sudden surge of interest in their, until then, marginal field. Why was the 1990s the right time for rape to become an international security problem? Furthermore, why suddenly in the 1990s did rape become problematized as an international issue not just by the feminist fringes of protest movements but also by intergovernmental bureaucracies? To explore these questions, Carol Harrington traces the historical change in the politicization of rape as an international problem and explains how early international women's organizations gained expert authority on rape by drawing on abolitionist rhetoric of bodily integrity. She discusses why they abandoned their politicization of rape in the inter-war period and why rape only reappeared as an international security question requiring gender expertise on trauma after the Cold War

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