POLSCI 389 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Yugoslav Wars, Genocidal Rape, Latin American Culture
8 May 2019
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The elephant in the room, skjelsbaek (2010), pp. Rape has always accompanied wars of religion and revolution; it has been a weapon of terror and revenge, also as a way of relieving boredom. (6) War creates opportunities for rape to be carried out with impunity by perpetrators (6) Rape in war is a metaphor for the barbarism of war, a direct manifestation of them is use of power and violence. (7) Rape of nanking - japanese soldiers" takeover of the chinese city of nanking in dec. 1937 and the brutality that followed. 200,000 women were forced to be sex slaves by the japanese. 9 month bangladesh war of independence experienced 200-400,000 rapes in 1971. (9) In latin american culture, rape is used in patriarchal, macho-dominated societies to reinforce female subjugation. In mozambique, girls as young as 8 were raped in front of their family, fathers forced to commit incest, and women impregnated, abducted, and held as sex slaves. (14)
