RT Article
T1 Narratives of suffering and endurance: coercive sexual relationships, truth commissions and possibilities for gender justice in Timor-Leste
JF International journal of transitional justice
VO 8
IS 2
SP 289
OP 313
A1 Kent, Lia 1988-
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1843429799
AB This article examines the narratives of 19 East Timorese women who were coerced into sexual relationships with members of the Indonesian security forces during the 24-year Indonesian occupation. Close attention to the key themes emerging from these stories helps to deepen understandings of women’s diverse experiences of the conflict and postconflict periods, and sheds light on the gendered possibilities and limits of truth commissions. By destabilizing the therapeutic assumptions of truth commissions, these women’s narratives also assist in developing a more contextualized, locally grounded and long-term approach to the pursuit of gender justice in Timor-Leste and elsewhere.
K1 Timor-Lest
K1 Women’s narratives
K1 Sexual Violence
K1 Truth commissions
K1 Gender justice
DO 10.1093/ijtj/iju008