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"Contemporary slavery has recently and unexpectedly emerged as a key source of both popular fascination and political mobilization. This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked to support a…
"Contemporary slavery has recently and unexpectedly emerged as a key source of both popular fascination and political mobilization. This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked to support a…
"Contemporary slavery has recently and unexpectedly emerged as a key source of both popular fascination and political mobilization. This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked to support a…
Es gehört zum Alltagswissen, dass sexuelle Gewalt in bewaffneten Konflikten allgegenwärtig ist. Gegenstand gesellschaftlicher Auseinandersetzungen und wissenschaftlicher Forschung wurde sie jedoch erst in jüngster Zeit. Die Frauen-, Bürgerrechts- und Antikriegsbewegungen der 197…
Peters organises her analysis of the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) (2000) into three sections: the law 'on the books, ' 'in the mind, ' and 'in action.' By arranging her research in this way, she is able to effectively tease out the difficulties faced by individua…
Part 1. The war remembered -- Japan's aggressive war and the military "comfort women" system -- The mass abduction of Chinese women -- Different types of military "comfort stations" in China -- Crimes fostered by the "comfort women" system -- Part 2. The survivors' voices -- Eas…
From 1932 to 1945, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women across Asia into "comfort stations" where they were repeatedly raped and tortured. Japanese imperial forces claimed they recruited women to join these stations in order to prevent the mass rape of loc…
Utilising archival research, court testimonies and eyewitness accounts of both survivors and military and civilian personnel, this book argues its case in three ways. Part I analyses the modalities of coercion employed by the authorities and investigates the historical differenc…
In Essays, Reflexionen und Gesprächen zeigen die Autor*innen dieses Bandes, in welch vielfältigen Konstellationen sexuelle Gewalt in bewaffneten Konflikten auftritt. Zusammengestellt im Rahmen der International Research Group »Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict« führt das Buch in…
Die erste Gesamtdarstellung eines Themas, das bislang weitgehend im Verborgenen geblieben ist: die Zwangsprostitution im Lagersystem der SS. Robert Sommers grundlegendes Buch zeichnet das Bild einer bisher unbekannten Realität des Schreckens. Auf Befehl Himmlers wurden ab 1942 i…
"Explores how sex trafficking has been reported in the media. The book is set in the context of reportage of this human rights abuse in two varying political landscapes ... the United States being a developed democracy and Thailand experiencing continued political turmoil includ…
