Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In a book that ranges from poignantly personal to deeply ethnographic but is across-the-board strikingly original, Mibenge challenges the legalization of gender essentialism and the gender nature of (sexual violence in) conflict. Using original research from Rwanda and Sierra Leone alongside in-depth legal analysis, the author compellingly makes the argument that the very norms and laws that appear to protect victims of sexual violence actually regulate and silence the very people they are meant to attract." *
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Sex and International Tribunals interrogates the unstated cultural assumptions behind the legal profession's claims to impartiality and universality. At a moment when international interventions in societies in crisis have never been more visible, this powerful and in-depth analysis is sorely needed." * Mary Moran, Colgate University *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Gender and Violence in the Market and Beyond
Chapter 1. The Women Were Not Raped: Gender and Violence in Butare-Ville
Chapter 2. All the Women Were Raped: Gender and Violence in Rwanda
Chapter 3. All Men Rape: Gender and Violence in Sierra Leone
Chapter 4. All Women Are Slaves: Insiders and Outsiders to Gender and Violence
Conclusion: There Are No Raped Women Here
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
