Portraying mass wartime rape in the documentary: Befreier und Befreite and Calling the Ghosts.(The Evolution of War and Its Representation in Literature and Film)(Critical essay)

From: West Virginia University Philological Papers | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Within the last two decades mass rape in wartime has received international attention. The phenomenon is nothing new: since the beginning of history, rape has accompanied war. Historians have long portrayed it as a "natural" consequence of war, as the price females pay for belonging to the conquered party. Feminist scholarship on rape in general and mass rape in wartime has specifically explored sociological, psychological, and political factors that perpetuate sexual assault against women as a strategic means of control, advancing in the process both discussion and awareness of ...

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