“Purity” and “Pollution” in Patriarchal Violence against Women
Violence against women continues unabated during conflicts! Rape as a weapon of war was gruesomely demonstrated during World War II, when both Allied and Axis armies committed rape as a means of terrorizing enemy civilian populations and demoralizing enemy troops. Sexual enslavement of women in territories conquered by the Japanese army, and the mass rape committed against German women by[Read More…]