TY - BOOK

T1 - The Landscape of Silence

T2 - Sexual Violence Against Men in War

AU - Misra, Amalendu

PY - 2015/8

Y1 - 2015/8

N2 - Why is it that men and boys have been and still are violated in human conflict, be it in conventional war, insurgencies or periods of civil and ethnic strife? Above all, why, throughout history, have victims, perpetrators and society as a whole refused to acknowledge this violation, and why do episodes of male-on-male rape and sexual abuse feature so rarely in accounts of war, be they official histories, eye-witness ac- counts or popular narratives? Is there more to this elision of memory than simply shame? Is there more to it than the victor's desire to violate the enemy body? Amalendu Misra's startlingly original re- search into male sexual violence explores the meaning and role of the male body prior to its abuse and how it is altered by violation in war- time. He examines the bio-political contexts of conflict in which primarily men and occasion- ally women sexually violate men; he details the inadequate legal safeguards for survivors of such events; and in unearthing and analysing an ignored aspect of war, he inquires whether such violence can ever be deterred.‘… sexual violation of men has been ignored for too long. Without sensationalism, Misra's book explores these victims in the context of armed conflicts.’ Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, Author Rape: A History from the 1860s to the Present.

AB - Why is it that men and boys have been and still are violated in human conflict, be it in conventional war, insurgencies or periods of civil and ethnic strife? Above all, why, throughout history, have victims, perpetrators and society as a whole refused to acknowledge this violation, and why do episodes of male-on-male rape and sexual abuse feature so rarely in accounts of war, be they official histories, eye-witness ac- counts or popular narratives? Is there more to this elision of memory than simply shame? Is there more to it than the victor's desire to violate the enemy body? Amalendu Misra's startlingly original re- search into male sexual violence explores the meaning and role of the male body prior to its abuse and how it is altered by violation in war- time. He examines the bio-political contexts of conflict in which primarily men and occasion- ally women sexually violate men; he details the inadequate legal safeguards for survivors of such events; and in unearthing and analysing an ignored aspect of war, he inquires whether such violence can ever be deterred.‘… sexual violation of men has been ignored for too long. Without sensationalism, Misra's book explores these victims in the context of armed conflicts.’ Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, Author Rape: A History from the 1860s to the Present.

KW - sexual violence

KW - war

KW - men

M3 - Monograph

SN - 9781849042826

BT - The Landscape of Silence

PB - Hurst

CY - London

ER -