Experts in law, history, philosophy, and women’s studies join therapists and
activists to present the issues and analyze key documents, many of them accounts
from victims of rape, from the Holocaust, Rwanda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the
Democratic Republic of Congo, and elsewhere. Relentless and unflinching, those
accounts speak of despair and hope, resilience, pain, shame, and loss. Each
chapter deals very personally with the agony of rape and the challenges it poses
to male behavior, international law, and political action. The book is a
memorial to female suffering and a deep challenge to all men to abandon forever
the kind of masculinity that perpetrates such wickedness. These stories in this
book will not produce despair, but clarity—about action, love, and hope for the
human spirit.
This book’s 13 chapters are designed for students but of
urgent importance to anyone who cares about the ravages of sexual violence and
war. The useful introduction and the discussion questions at the end of each
chapter make Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide additionally valuable for
university courses in genocide studies, gender studies, and international
law.
and unflinching, those accounts speak of despair and hope, resilience, pain,
shame, and loss. Each chapter deals very personally with the agony of rape and
the challenges it poses to male behavior, international law, and political
action. The book is a memorial to female suffering and a deep challenge to all
men to abandon forever the kind of masculinity that perpetrates such wickedness.
These stories in this book will not produce despair, but c