Citation

Borer TA. Violence Against Women 2009; 15(10): 1169-1193.

Affiliation

Connecticut College.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801209344676

PMID

19706778

Abstract

That war is profoundly gendered has long been recognized by feminist international relations scholars. What is less recognized is that the postwar period is equally gendered. Currently undertheorized is how truth-seeking exercises in the aftermath of conflict should respond to this fact. What happens to women victims of war violence? The difficulties of foregrounding gendered wartime violence in truth telling are illustrated by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The article explores some consequences of the failure to uncover gendered truth, including its impact on the government's reparations policy, and continued "peacetime" violence perpetrated against women in South Africa.

Language: en