Rape in Wartime

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Writing the History of Rape in Wartime....Pages 1-16
Categorising Rape in the Military Law of Modern Russia....Pages 17-33
The Unquestioned Crime: Sexual Violence by German Soldiers during the War of Annihilation in the Soviet Union, 1941–45....Pages 34-46
The Victimisation of the Body and the Body Politic during the Greek Civil War, 1946–49....Pages 47-66
Mass Rape and the Inscription of Gendered and Racial Domination during the Bangladesh War of 1971....Pages 67-78
Rape, Blaming the Victim and Social Control in Paramilitary Enclaves: An Approach to the Case of Colombia....Pages 79-89
After “Teutonic Fury”, “Belgian Fury”? Fact and Fiction in the Revenge of Belgian Soldiers in the Rhineland in 1923....Pages 90-102
The Practices of War, Terror and Imagination: Moor Troops and Rapes during the Spanish Civil War....Pages 103-114
Promising Rape: Private Militias against Maoist Guerrillas in the State of Bihar (India)....Pages 115-127
The Weight of Imagination: Rapes and the Legend of Women Snipers in Chechnya....Pages 128-139
Breaking the Silence: New Approaches to the Consequences of Rape in Some African Conflicts, 1994–2008....Pages 140-152
The Body That Writes: Reflections on the Process of Writing about Wartime Rape Avoidance in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict....Pages 153-168
The Nigerian Civil War of 1967 and the Stigmatisation of Children Born of Rape Victims in Edo State....Pages 169-183
“Special Decisions” Children Born as the Result of German Rape and Handed Over to Public Assistance during the Great War (1914–18)....Pages 184-200
The Russians and Germans: Rape during the War and Post-Soviet Memories....Pages 201-219
Back Matter....Pages 220-237