POLSCI 389 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Wartime Sexual Violence, Genital Modification And Mutilation, Comfort Women

• School: U of M
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 389
• Professor: Ragnhild Nordas

Document Summary

Variation in sexual violence during war, wood 2006. Sexual violence varies in prevalence and form across civil wars as well as inter-state wars, across ethnic wars as well as non-ethnic, and across secessionist conflicts. (2) Sexual violence - a broader category that includes rape, coerced undressing, and non-penetrating sexual assault such as sexual mutilation. German women were targeted by soviet troops. In european history there appears to be a pattern of rape following prolonged sieges as a form of punishment for holding out rather than surrendering. Massive sexual violence also occurred in the pacific theater. Sexual violence in nanjing included various forms of sexual abuse of men, including rape, the forcing of men to have sex with family members or the dead, and the forcing of celibate men to have intercourse. Comfort women - system of organized brothels that accompanied japanese forces. Bosnia - several distinct patterns of sexual violence.