Misra Amalendu - The Landscape Of Silence Sexual Violence Against Men In War - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Why is it that men and boys have been and still are violated in human conflict be it in conventional war insurgencies or periods of civil and ethnic strife? Above all why throughout history have victims perpetrators and society as a whole refused to acknowledge this violation and why do episodes of male - on - male rape and sexual abuse feature so rarely in accounts of war be they official histories eye - witness ac - counts or popular narratives? Is there more to this elision of memory than simply shame? Is there more to it than the victor's desire to violate the enemy body? Amalendu Misra's startlingly original re - search into male sexual violence explores the meaning and role of the male body prior to its abuse and how it is altered by violation in war - time. He examines the bio - political contexts of conflict in which primarily men and occasion - ally women sexually violate men; he details the inadequate legal safeguards for survivors of such events; and in unearthing and analysing an ignored aspect of war he inquires whether such violence can ever be deterred.
Title: The Landscape Of Silence Sexual Violence Against Men In War
Author(s): Misra Amalendu
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781849042826
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 8/15/2015
Category: War Crimes