11A. Women in Wartime; Rape as a Weapon of War. Women and the Military.
Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.
― Lillian Wald
Comfort Women Justice Coalition
“... to remember the hundreds of thousands of women and girls sexually enslaved by the Japanese Imperial Army from the early 1930s to 1945 and to educate the public about their history.”
https://remembercomfortwomen.org/home-2
Comfort Women News
“... to share in English what is being said from Korean press.”
https://www.comfortwomennews.com
Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights
“… to use knowledge about gender and security to end armed conflicts and build sustainable international peace.”
https://genderandsecurity.org
The hostility and venomous response the topic of sexual trauma and rape in the military brings up, especially with men from my Era, is revealing. This opposition speaks to their guilt and toward the truth that stays hidden.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Conduct Unbecoming: Rape, Torture, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders
Mia Bloom. “Rape by Russian soldiers in Ukraine is the latest example of a despicable wartime crime that spans the globe.” [2022]
https://archive.ph/wip/rsRCO
FreeTaiger. “Rape of Iraqi women by U.S. soldiers viedo [sic!] and photo.” [in English] [2010]
https://freetaiger.wordpress.com/2010/11/27/
Judah Ari Gross. "IDF officer who raped Palestinian was not dismissed for earlier sexual offenses: Soldier had reportedly faced disciplinary committee over sexual harassment of female officers, but convinced military to allow him to remain in service.” [2021]
Offenses included rape of a Palestinian woman.
https://archive.ph/WXIIM
Human Rights Watch. "Shattered lives: Sexual violence during the Rwandan genocide and after." [1996]
https://archive.ph/etFaV
Bethan McKernan. “Rape as a weapon: huge scale of sexual violence inflicted in Ukraine emerges: Women and girls have recounted the abuse they have suffered at the hands of Russian soldiers.” [2022
https://archive.ph/u7ykh
Kerry N. Paterson. “Ten must read books on sexualized violence in war.” [2013]
https://archive.ph/lO4wT
Larissa M. Peltola. “Rape and sexual violence used as a weapon of war and genocide: An examination of historical and contemporary cases of genocidal rape and prosecution of rape in international courts.” [2018]
https://archive.ph/wip/2mYpk
Peter Preskar. “The horrific mass rape of German women at the end of World War II: The greatest mass rape in history — the liberators raped over 2 million women.” [n.d.]
https://archive.ph/kQB3w
Barry Sheppard. “UNITED STATES: Documents reveal sexual exploitation and abuse in Korean War.” [2023]
https://archive.ph/i2TvJ
Vibeke Brask Thomsen. “'Survival sex': How NGOs and peacekeepers exploit women in war.” [2013]
https://archive.ph/tfgrX
Valerie Wieskamp. “My Lai, sexual assault and the Black Blouse Girl: Forty-five years later, one of America’s most iconic photos hides truth in plain sight.” [2013]
https://archive.ph/22un9
Wikipedia. "Wartime sexual violence." [n.d.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartime_sexual_violence
Lauren Wolfe [Women’s Media Center]. “Portraits of three women in Congo: Their lives, their rapes, their recovery.” [2014]
https://archive.ph/wip/Wyjf8
_____.“Why soldiers rape–and when they don’t–in diagrams.” [2014]
https://archive.ph/wip/bCxKV
The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.
— Genghis Khan
Tom Digby. Love and war: How militarism shapes sex and sexuality. [2014]
BOOK
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/love-and-war/9780231168410
(To request a pdf from the author)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313495424_Tom_Digby_Love_and_w…-
Chris Coulter. Bush wives and girl soldiers: Women’s lives through war and peace in Sierra Leone. [2009] ONLINE BOOK
https://archive.org/details/bushwivesgirlsol0000coul
They revert to the innocence of wild animals: we can imagine them returning from an orgy of murder, arson, rape, and torture, jubilant and at peace with themselves as though they had committed a fraternity prank — convinced, moreover, that the poets for a long time to come will have something to sing about and to praise.
— Friedrich Nietzsche