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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Wartime sexual violence: women’s human rights and questions of masculinity
Contributor:
ALISON, MIRANDA
Published:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2007
Published in:
Review of International Studies, 33 (2007) 1, Seite 75-90
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/s0260210507007310
ISSN:
0260-2105;
1469-9044
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
This article examines wartime sexual violence, one of the most recurring wartime human rights abuses. It asserts that our theorisations need further development, particularly in regard to the way that masculinities and the intersections with constructions of ethnicity feature in wartime sexual violence. The article also argues that although women and girls are the predominant victims of sexual violence and men and boys the predominant agents, we must also be able to account for the presence of male victims and female agents. This, however, engenders a problem; much of the women’s human rights discourse and existing international mechanisms for addressing wartime sexual violence tend to reify the male-perpetrator/female-victim paradigm. This is a problem which feminist human rights theorists and activists need to address.