It also briefly introduces the essential terms connected to sexual violence that are further explored throughout the entire book: taboos and norms silence gender-based violence regionalism and weak states globalisation legal protection patriarchy and global political economy of war and connects them to sexual violence problematic. It conceptualises sexual violence by defining the term, and analyses the place where sexual violence in armed conflict happens, together with types of violent acts, perpetrators, victims, survivors and impacts ranging from the health of the victim to social consequences. The first chapter introduces the topic by a short historical depiction of sexual crimes, mainly targeted against women, during the course of the history of warfare. She highlights the phenomena of globalisation and “new wars,” which create “ideal” grounds for sexual violence to become one of the vital parts of the international political economy of war. Leatherman explores sexual violence and rape studies its roots, nature as well as consequences. The book aims to raise readers’ attention to sexual violence in armed conflict and highlight the link between sexual violence and profit-making in the global marketplace. With her work Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict, Leatherman attempts to address a wide-scale - yet underreported and underestimated - banality and brutality of sexual assaults which thousands of women face on a daily basis in war-torn areas around the world.
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