...), the essay examines how political manipulation and the rhetoric and genre of human rights discourse stifle the narratives on the violence and trauma of the Congolese population. It seeks to understand why the rape narratives of women of some nations effectively elicit empathy and convey the violence, trauma...

...Lucy Graham This essay examines a hypothetical supplement to Rudyard Kipling's famous poem “If—” scripted by the judge during the Jacob Zuma rape trial in 2006. It places this into conversation with State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature (2012) and argues for the importance...

...Nayanika Mookherjee Abstract The formation of Bangladesh in 1971 coincided with the death of three million people and rape of two hundred thousand women (according to official and contested figures) by the West Pakistani army and local East Pakistani collaborators. Yet 1971 rarely exists in any...

... in the political rather than the cultural. I show how the resulting analytical blind spots allow questions of female desire and sexual agency to be perpetually elided. I draw on examples of fatwas in shalish (informal community hearings) and legal judgments on rape in Bangladesh to make my argument. © 2015...

... . Mbembe Achille . “Necropolitics.” Public Culture 15 , no. 1 ( 2013 ): 11 – 40 . McTighe Kristen . “Death of Rape Victim in Morocco Sparks Calls for Legal Reform.” New York Times , April 5 , 2012 . www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/world/africa/death-of-rape-victim-in-morocco-sparks...

... no action was taken for a full year the extent such activism by the voluntary agencies can Supreme Court appointed two commissions: one to look challenge and go against the social biases that exist. Let into the offense of rape and the other to look into the me outline three recent cases...

... of Hindu and Sikh families of rejecting women abducted and/or raped families’ and communities’ refusal to reintegrate in the communal (religious community based) riots women sexually violated during the Partition riots of 1946-7.4 Contextualizing these desertions within and later repatriated from...

... station’s hakima these legal systems? Was it rape? If so, what does the then examined Bahana and found her not to be a term “violation of a person’s honor” imply, and was virgin, and Shalabiyya asked the police...

... Girl Punished for Being Raped” turned out to be the title of a report circulated on the listserv of an international advocacy and research network on women’s rights and Islamic law. On p. 508, footnote 1 should read: Patrick Goodenough, “Bangladesh: Court Orders Protection for Muslim Girl...

... Pakistan, the disruptions by the Taliban of heritage politics, the rapes of Bengali women by Pakistan soldiers, will just have to bide their time. In “1971: Pakistan's Past and Knowing What Not to Narrate,” Nayanika Mookherjee's systematic dissection of the avoidance of the issue of rape in public...

... and the Middle East x-1629025 Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own. 2. See, e.g., Kimberly Theidon, “Disarming the Subject: Remem- bering War and Imagining Citizenship in Peru,” Cultural Critique 1. See, e.g., Sondra Hale, “Rape as a Marker...

... scores of reports of torture inflicted by LTEsuspects, and the IPKF was complicit in Tristar and both the Sri Lanka security forces and the IPKF. Several EPRLF killings of LllE suspects. deaths in custody as a result of torture were reported in both Several allegations of rape by members...

... change of side helps in the as a gentle rich girl. At one point in the narrative villain’s defeat. It is not fortuitous that she, who has Gamini pretends to be drunk and pretends to rape her been shown selling illicit liquor, extracting payment in order to shame her father out of his alcoholism...

... inflamed questions of the The Bali Bombings compatibility of Arab and Muslim Australians to Prejudice directed at Arab-Australians intensified Australia, was the “gang-rape” debate. This debate yet again following the devastation of the October stemmed from the gang rape of a number of young 2002 Bali...

... out the National Social immediate cause for bringing this matter in the Legisla- tive Council was the death of eleven-year old Phulmani Conference. from being raped by her husband. Scriptures were The Age of Consent Bill was made the law, but the quoted to show it was contrary to religious...

... vari- book. However, the publisher, Oxford University ation in institutional spaces within which knowl- Press, declared that it had no plans to reissue the edge is produced when a public crisis looms, as Indian edition of the book. While I and other was the case in the 2012 gang rape of a woman...

..., situated in sub-Saharan Af- South Africa and prolonged war, torture, rape, and abuse rica and the Middle East. If global war strikes as East of women and children as human weapons) in a new post-9/11 and media-generated phenom- Middle ­Africa...

... the rate present, Kigali embodies a “regime of vio- manche’s novel, the reader witnesses the rape the lence,” whose symbolic expressions of power, of Georgina, as well as her murder...

... of slavery was not I conclude by discussing the visual and spatial established as a customary norm at the time politics of the performance of shame and dig- anyway; (3) acts of rape during armed conflict   nity in Japan as well as in Korea and argue...

... to accuse someone respect to women and as a result, the book is still extremely of rape. There have been a number of well-publicized cases rclcvan t . (Safia Bibi and Jehan Mina) where the woman that filed a Women of Pakistan is written (not edited as appears...