Maira Asif2025-08-282025-08-282020https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/5501Gendered 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.en-USThesis