Accession Number:

ADA278032

Title:

Women, Rape, and War: 'Gaining Redress within A Human Rights Framework'

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA

Personal Author(s):

• Washington, Carolyn J.

Report Date:

1993-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

71.0

Abstract:

The evolution of human rights and the world womens movement have combined for the first time to place rape as an instrument of war on the agenda of international politics. Rape in war has been regarded as an incidental, accidental and individual violation of military law. It was rarely given serious scholarly consideration, not even by historians of war, except to glorify it as a form of propaganda. This thesis will examine 1 how the historical subordination of women in peacetime is related to the wartime rape of women, 2 the manner in which the mass rapes in the Bosnian War were brought to world attention and onto the agenda of international human rights and 3 the impact of the feminist movement in the United States in redefining the way sexual assault and rape are understood in our culture. Rape, Bosnian War, Human rights, Women.

Descriptors:

• *ASSAULT
• *WOMEN
• *SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
• PEACETIME
• IMPACT
• THESES
• ATTENTION
• REACTION(PSYCHOLOGY)
• MILITARY LAW
• INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS
• CATALYTIC CONFLICT(WARFARE)
• WARTIME
• TACTICAL ANALYSIS
• INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
• CROSS CULTURE(SOCIOLOGY)

Subject Categories:

• Sociology and Law
• Psychology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE