Browsing by Author "Maira Asif"

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    Re-conceptualizing Rape as a weapon of war in the Rohingya Crisis
    (UMT.Lahore, 2020) Maira Asif
    Gendered violence during conflict and war builds its legitimacy from pre-existing gender relations and socio-cultural norms. Women are socialized to bear the duty of reproducing not just the child, but also the ethnic, national, religious identity of the state.
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    RE-CONCEPTUALIZING WAR RAPE IN ROHINGYA CRISIS
    (UMT.Lahore, 2020) Maira Asif
    Gendered violence during conflict and war builds its legitimacy from pre-existing gender relations and socio-cultural norms. Women are socialized to bear the duty of reproducing not just the child, but also the ethnic, national, religious identity of the state. Thus rape of a woman during a war is less about that woman and more so a symbolic conquest of the men who were supposed to be her „protectors‟. (Diken and Laustsen, 2005) Despite the long standing history of gender based violence, it remains a controversial subject for academics to examine.