Book Review: Aisling Swaine, Conflict-Related Violence Against Women: Transforming Transition (2018)
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Abstract
Acknowledging that rape is sometimes utilized as a “weapon of war” represents an important development in humanitarian action and scholarly inquiry. However, Aisling Swaine instructs this is but one important facet of the range of harms women experience in time of war, not to mention in peacetime. Swaine articulates two powerful themes: the variant nature of violence against women in times of war, and the other concerns its ambulant nature over time.
Swaine’s treatment of “conflict-related violence against women” represents an important contribution to the canon of feminist scholarship on gender-based violence. Her insights emerge from qualitative research she conducted in three post-conflict countries encompassing Northern Ireland, Liberia, and Timor- Leste.
Publication Title
Human Rights Quarterly
ISSN
0275-0392
Volume
41
First Page
763
Last Page
769
Recommended Citation
Jennifer Moore,
Book Review: Aisling Swaine, Conflict-Related Violence Against Women: Transforming Transition (2018),
41
Human Rights Quarterly
763
(2019).
Available at:
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facultyscholarship/775
Comments
Aisling Swaine, Conflict-Related Violence Against Women: Transforming Transition (Cambridge University Press, 2018), ISBN 9781107514195, 321 Pages.