RT Book
T1 Women as war criminals: gender, agency, and justice
A1 Steflja, Izabela
A2 Trisko-Darden, Jessica 1984-
LA English
PP Stanford, California
PB Stanford Briefs
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/170388504X
AB "Women 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. Women who have committed war crimes go unnoticed because their very existence goes against our assumptions about war and about women. Biases that contend that women are peaceful and innocent prevent us from "seeing" women as war criminals. They also work to prevent post-conflict justice systems from assigning women blame. We argue that women are just as capable as men in committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. They are also uniquely adept at using gender instrumentally to fight for better conditions and reduced sentences when war ends. We examine four legal cases to demonstrate this: the President (Biljana Plavšić), the Minister (Pauline Nyiramasuhuko), the Soldier (Lynndie England), and the Student (Hoda Muthana). The intersection of gender, the ideological commitment, age, race, nationality, religion, rank, and institutional membership of these women influenced their treatment by legal systems and their ability to mount a gendered defense of their actions. The political context and motivations of the courts that handled their cases also shaped the legal outcomes. Justice, ultimately, is not blind to gender"--
NO Includes bibliographical references
CN KZ1168.5
SN 9781503613430
K1 Plavšić, Biljana : Trials, litigation, etc
K1 Nyiramasuhuko, Pauline : Trials, litigation, etc
K1 England, Lynndie : Trials, litigation, etc
K1 Muthana, Hoda : Trials, litigation, etc
K1 War crime trials
K1 Women war criminals : Case studies
K1 Frau : Kriegsverbrechen : Täterin