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Plight and Fate of Women During and Following Genocide book cover

1st Edition

Plight and Fate of Women During and Following Genocide

By Samuel Totten Copyright 2009
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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The plight and fate of female victims during the course of genocide is radically and profoundly different from their male counterparts. Like males, female victims suffer demonization, ostracism, discrimination, and deprivation of their basic human rights. They are often rounded up, deported, and killed. But, unlike most men, women are subjected to rape, gang rape, and mass rape. Such assaults and... Read more

Introduction - Samuel Totten

1. Women and the Armenian Genocide: The Victim, the Living Martyr - Rubina Peroomian

2. Women and the Holocaust - Helene J. Sinnreich

3. The Bangladesh Genocide: The Plight of Women - Angela Debnath

4. Death, Shattered Families, and Living as Widows in Cambodia - Judy Ledgerwood

5. The Plight and Fate of Women During the Crisis in the Former Yugoslavia - Ivana Macek

6. The Plight and Fate of Females During and Following the 1994 Rwandan Genocide - Samuel Totten

7. The Darfur Genocide: The Mass Rape of Black African Girls and Women - Samuel Totten

8. Rape as Genocide - Frances T. Pilch

9. The Evolution of Gender Crimes in International Law - Nicole Hallett

10. Prosecution of Gender-Based Acts of Genocide under International Law - Valerie Oosterveld

11. The Post-Genocidal Period and Its Impact on Women - Tazreena Sajjad

Contributors

Index

Biography

Samuel Totten

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