Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and Justice

Women war criminals are far more common than we think. From the Holocaust to ethnic cleansing in...
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Author: Izabela Steflja
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Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and Justice by Steflja, Izabela

Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and Justice

$50.20

Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and Justice

$50.20
Author: Izabela Steflja
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 Plavsic), 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.



Author: Izabela Steflja, Jessica Trisko Darden
Publisher: Stanford Briefs
Published: 09/08/2020
Pages: 180
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9781503613430

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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