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Rape as a Weapon of War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Claudia Card
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Abstract

This essay examines how rape of women and girls by male soldiers works as a martial weapon. Continuities with other torture and terrorism and with civilian rape are suggested. The inadequacy of past philosophical treatments of the enslavement of war captives is briefly discussed. Social strategies are suggested for responding and a concluding fantasy offered, not entirely social, of a strategy to change the meanings of rape to undermine its use as a martial weapon.

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Hypatia , Volume 11 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Women and Violence , Fall 1996 , pp. 5 - 18
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Copyright © 1996 by Hypatia, Inc.

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