{"product_id":"women-as-war-criminals-gender-agency-and-justice-paperback-softback-9781503613430","title":"Women As War Criminals; Gender, Agency, and Justice (Paperback \/ softback) 9781503613430","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWomen As War Criminals\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGender, Agency, and Justice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIzabela Steflja (Author), Jessica Trisko Darden (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503613430\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 September 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e180 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Feminists don't imagine all women are angels. What they do know is that diverse women are analytically interesting. In their careful dig into these four war crimes trials, Izabela Steflja and Jessica Trisko Darden underscore this in neon.\"—Cynthia Enloe, Clark University, author of \u003ci\u003eGlobalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link\u003c\/i\u003e \"Women commit atrocities. The study of women who become human rights abusers, however, remains fraught with stereotype, taboo, and denialism. These distortions occlude the careful study of gender and violence and, what is more, marginalize the victims. Izabela Steflja and Jessica Trisko Darden's courageous book responds to these gaps by providing a humanistic, grounded, and rigorous study of four women enmeshed in criminality. Justice for atrocity hinges upon recognizing gender in all aspects—perpetration, suffering, and rebuilding. \u003ci\u003eWomen as War Criminals\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly advances the accountability project.\"—Mark A. Drumbl, Washington and Lee University, author of \u003ci\u003eAtrocity, Punishment, and International Law\u003c\/i\u003e \"Through a profile of four women war criminals, this concise book shines a spotlight on women who perpetrate or incite heinous acts of violence and on the ways in which gender stereotypes influence the interpretation of their behavior. Bold and clear, \u003ci\u003eWomen as War Criminals\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a crucial corrective to assumptions about women in war and as an accessible analysis from which students and experts alike will learn.\"—Scott Straus, University of Wisconsin, Madison, author of \u003ci\u003eMaking and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa\u003c\/i\u003e \"[\u003ci\u003eWomen as War Criminals\u003ci\u003e] stands as an important corrective to former approaches that enshrine women as nurturing and innocent, thus assigning them a lenient sentence; instead the book treats women as responsible, independent offenders... [\u003ci\u003eWomen as War Criminals\u003ci\u003e] is bound to inspire further fascinating debates on the relationship between gender and justice.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Haoliang Zhang, \u003ci\u003eFeminist Legal Studies\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWomen war criminals are far more common than we think. From the Holocaust to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans to the Rwandan genocide, women have perpetrated heinous crimes. Few have been punished. These women go unnoticed because their very existence challenges our assumptions about war and about women. Biases about women as peaceful and innocent prevent us from \"seeing\" women as war criminals—and prevent postconflict justice systems from assigning women blame.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen as War Criminals\u003c\/i\u003e argues that women are just as capable as men of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. In addition to unsettling assumptions about women as agents of peace and reconciliation, the book highlights the gendered dynamics of law, and demonstrates that women are adept at using gender instrumentally to fight for better conditions and reduced sentences when war ends.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book presents the legal cases of four women: the President (Biljana Plavšić), the Minister (Pauline Nyiramasuhuko), the Soldier (Lynndie England), and the Student (Hoda Muthana). Each woman's complex identity influenced her treatment by legal systems and her ability to mount a gendered defense before the court. 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