AAA General Meeting, 29 November- 3 December 2017, Washington DC
If you are working on gender and intimate relationships in contexts impacted by widespread violence please consider submitting an abstract for the following proposed AAA session:
Session Title: Sex and War
Abstract
When it comes to the topic of sex in the context of war much scholarly and practical concern has been shown for the terrible occurrences of rape. Evocative language describing rape as a “weapon of war” and the female body as a battlefield is now commonplace. Although scholars note similarities with violence before, during and after conflict, very little is known about the relationship between sex andwar nor about widespread violence and “normal” male-female relationships.
This session draws together studies from different regions which examine changing dynamics of gender, violence, sexuality and relationships. The papers explore the relationship between sex(including but moving beyond a focus on sexualized violence) and war. The panel foregrounds the ways war and its accouterments variously work to continue, exaggerate and/or rupture “normal” social and gendered orderings of intimate relationships. This has implications both for our understanding of the logics that animate violence and practical endeavors to prevent or respond to it.
By looking at the broader frameworks of gender and sex in a variety of contexts this session hopes to challenge dominant thinking about sexualized violence in war and to contribute in-depth ethnographic insights on the impact of war on intimate relations, sexuality and gender.
Keywords: Gender, war, sex
Paper abstracts should not be more than 250 words and should be submitted via email ASAP to [log in to unmask] If you are interested please respond to this email now so we can coordinate a timely submission.
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Holly Porter, Ph.D.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
CRG, University of Gent & IOB, University of Antwerp
Research Fellow, International Development
London School of Economics and Political Science
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mobile: 07991887672
After Rape: Violence, justice and social harmony in Uganda, Cambridge University Press
http://bit.ly/2e4rzE8
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