Queering explanatory frameworks for wartime sexual violence against men.
In this article we argue that prevalent explanatory frameworks of sexual violence against men primarily pursue one line of inquiry, explaining its occurrence as exclusively strategic and systematic, based on heteronormative and homophobic assumptions about violence, gender and sexualities. Feminist...
| Publicado en: | International Affairs Vol. 96; no. 5; pp. 1169 - 1188 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2020
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