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1 online resource (283 p.) |
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Author Biographies -- 1. Challenging Conceptions -- Part I Life Cycles: Children Born of Wartime Rape Across Time and Space -- 2. "They're Called Bui Doi": (Re)framing the Politics of Amerasians and Children Born of War -- 3. Reconstructing the Small Family After Democratic Kampuchea: Forced Marriage, Ritual Renewal, and Parent-Child Entanglement in Cambodia -- 4. Unintended Consequences or Desired Outcome? Children Born of War and Their Role in National Rebirth -- Part II Beyond Stigma: Gender, Kinship, and Belonging in Northern Uganda |
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5. Gender, Kinship, and Affiliation of Children Born of War in Patriarchal Northern Uganda -- 6. Kinship and Belonging Among Children Born of War in Northern Uganda: "I Am a Child Who Is Not from Here" -- 7. Missing Fathers: Children Born of Wartime Rape and Their Perspectives on Fathers and Fatherhood in Northern Uganda -- Part III (In)visibility: Concealment, Disclosure, and the Question of Categories -- 8. Triptych: Seeing Children Born of Wartime Rape -- 9. The Unknown Youth of Al-Shabaab: Children Born from Al-Shabaab Sexual Violence |
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10. Contested Identities: Gender, Reproduction, and War in Colombia -- 11. The Complexity of Sexual Violence, Birthing, and Status After the Fall of the Caliphate -- Part IV Transformations: Intergenerational Reconciliation and Justice -- 12. "Where Do You Send the Pain?": Agency and Resilience in Three Children Born of War in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 13. The Role of Spirituality in the Acceptance of Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence -- 14. Moving Beyond Rwanda's "Children of Bad Memory": A Conversation on Working with Mothers and Children Born of Wartime Rape |
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15. Local Inspiration, Global Implementation: Upholding the Rights of Children Born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
Tens of thousands of children worldwide have been born as a result of mass rape campaigns or wartime sexual exploitation. What about these living legacies of rape and sexual violence? What do we know about these children and their life chances? To explore these and other questions, Challenging Conceptions gathers together an interdisciplinary and international roster of scholars. They include professors and doctoral students in the fields of anthropology, gender studies, history, law, transitional justice, social work, and sociology among others. Some of these practitioners and scholars, as th |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Sex crimes
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Children of rape victims
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Rape as a weapon of war
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Women and war
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Children of rape victims.
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Rape as a weapon of war.
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Sex crimes.
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Women and war.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mazurana, Dyan
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Anumol, Dipali
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| ISBN |
9780197648339 |
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0197648339 |
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