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- Title
Rape, Representation, and the Endurance of Hegemonic Masculinity.
- Authors
Swanson, Elizabeth; Stone, Katherine
- Abstract
This article mines the history of rape jurisprudence to illuminate how the legal treatment of wartime rape informs long-standing gendered tropes that dominate its understanding on the ground as well as its representation in literary and cultural texts. The essay concludes by reading Congolese novelist Emmanuel Dongala's Johnny Mad Dog as a model for a dialogic literary imagination capable of revealing the fatal consequences of toxic masculinity as it informs not only the perpetration of rape in wartime, but also the possibility for either perpetrator or victim to achieve subjectivity free from the burdens of brutally constraining gender norms.
- Subjects
RAPE laws; RAPE; CULTURE; INTERNATIONAL relations; MASCULINITY; SOCIAL norms; VICTIMS; WAR; WAR crimes; HISTORY
- Publication
Violence Against Women, 2019, Vol 25, Issue 13, p1613
- ISSN
1077-8012
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077801219869551