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Karen Engle

The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict: Feminist Interventions in International Law

The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict: Feminist Interventions in International Law

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Contemporary feminist advocacy in human rights, international criminal law, and peace and security is gripped by the issue of sexual violence in conflict. But it hasn't always been this way. Analyzing feminist international legal and political work over the past three decades, Karen Engle argues that it was not inevitable that sexual violence in conflict would become such a prominent issue.

Engle reveals that as feminists from around the world began to pay an enormous amount of attention to sexual violence in conflict, they often did so at the cost of attention to other issues, including the anti-militarism of the women's peace movement; critiques of economic maldistribution, imperialism, and cultural essentialism by feminists from the global South; and the sex-positive positions of many feminists involved in debates about sex work and pornography. The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict offers a detailed examination of how these feminist commitments were not merely deprioritized, but undermined, by efforts to address the issue of sexual violence in conflict. Engle's analysis reinvigorates vital debates about feminist goals and priorities, and spurs readers to question much of today's common sense about the causes, effects, and proper responses to sexual violence in conflict.



Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Engle, Karen
Published: 04/07/2020
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9781503607941
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.90d
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