You are invited to attend a reading group for the Violence, Conflict and Gender Cluster at 1-2pm on Tuesday 26 February, in ORB_1.24.
The reading will be chapter 1, ‘Sex/gender violence’ (pp. 12-41) in Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern, Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War?: Perceptions, Prescriptions, Problems in the Congo and Beyond (Africa Now). Zed Books, 2013 (available at: https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1148245/FULLTEXT01.pdf). The chapter discusses the sex and gender discourses of sexual violence (and their intersection with race in the Congo) and how they both ultimately dehumanize both the rapist and the victim.
We look forward to seeing you there and discussing the text.