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Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and Justice (Stanford Briefs) Kindle Edition

by Izabela Steflja (Author), Jessica Trisko Darden (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Women war criminals are far more common than we think. From the Holocaust to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans to the Rwandan genocide, women have perpetrated heinous crimes. Few have been punished. These women go unnoticed because their very existence challenges our assumptions about war and about women. Biases about women as peaceful and innocent prevent us from "seeing" women as war criminals—and prevent postconflict justice systems from assigning women blame. Women as War Criminals argues that women are just as capable as men of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. In addition to unsettling assumptions about women as agents of peace and reconciliation, the book highlights the gendered dynamics of law, and demonstrates that women are adept at using gender instrumentally to fight for better conditions and reduced sentences when war ends. The book presents the legal cases of four women: the President (Biljana Plavšic), the Minister (Pauline Nyiramasuhuko), the Soldier (Lynndie England), and the Student (Hoda Muthana). Each woman's complex identity influenced her treatment by legal systems and her ability to mount a gendered defense before the court. Justice, as Steflja and Trisko Darden show, is not blind to gender.
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"Feminists don't imagine all women are angels. What they do know is that diverse women are analytically interesting. In their careful dig into these four war crimes trials, Izabela Steflja and Jessica Trisko Darden underscore this in neon."―Cynthia Enloe, Clark University, author of Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link

"Through a profile of four women war criminals, this concise book shines a spotlight on women who perpetrate or incite heinous acts of violence and on the ways in which gender stereotypes influence the interpretation of their behavior. Bold and clear, Women as War Criminals stands as a crucial corrective to assumptions about women in war and as an accessible analysis from which students and experts alike will learn."―Scott Straus, University of Wisconsin, Madison, author of Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa

"Women commit atrocities. The study of women who become human rights abusers, however, remains fraught with stereotype, taboo, and denialism. These distortions occlude the careful study of gender and violence and, what is more, marginalize the victims. Izabela Steflja and Jessica Trisko Darden's courageous book responds to these gaps by providing a humanistic, grounded, and rigorous study of four women enmeshed in criminality. Justice for atrocity hinges upon recognizing gender in all aspects―perpetration, suffering, and rebuilding. Women as War Criminals brilliantly advances the accountability project."―Mark A. Drumbl, Washington and Lee University, author of Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law

"[Women as War Criminals] stands as an important corrective to former approaches that enshrine women as nurturing and innocent, thus assigning them a lenient sentence; instead the book treats women as responsible, independent offenders... [Women as War Criminals] is bound to inspire further fascinating debates on the relationship between gender and justice." ―Haoliang Zhang, Feminist Legal Studies

About the Author

Izabela Steflja is Professor of Practice in Political Science and International Development at Tulane University. Jessica Trisko Darden is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at American University's School of International Service. She is the author of Aiding and Abetting: U.S. Foreign Assistance and State Violence (2019).

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08J83PJ2C
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stanford Briefs (September 8, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 8, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1053 KB
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 168 pages
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    Izabela Steflja is a Professor of Practice in the Department of Political Science at Tulane University.

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    Jessica Trisko Darden is an Assistant Professor at American University's School of International Service. She is concurrently a Non-Resident Fellow at George Washington University's Program on Extremism.

    Dr. Trisko Darden has contributed commentary on international politics and conflict to The Conversation, The Economist, The Guardian, The Hill, Newsweek, The New York Times, US News and World Report, and The Washington Post, among others. She been interviewed by BBC World Service, CNN, The Globe and Mail, NPR, The Today Show, and The Wall Street Journal. You can follow her @triskodarden.

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I loved this. I was researching war criminals for fiction purposes and this book was so eye opening on double standards and image versus reality regarding women.
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