Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict
Publisher:
Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-7456-4187-4, 176 pp.
The relationship between sexual violence and armed conflict is one of the most attention-grabbing topics in academia and to the general public. This book, written with coherence, clarity, and force, could well appeal to a wider audience. In Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict, Janie Leatherman explores multifaceted factors related to sexual violence in situations of armed conflict. The author analyses and explains the relevance of a range of themes, such as gender relations in society – particularly gendered differences in power, freedom, autonomy, agency, and choice.
The full book review is available here:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09614524.2012.664631
Issue:
Volume 22, Number 3
Nilani Ljunggren De Silva
Institute of International Education, Stockholm University, Sweden