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War is the ultimate cauldron of identity politics. The environment of heightened threat and hostility of war situations is both the consequence of identity clashes as well as fertile ground for deepened entrenchment of identities. While an in-depth examination of the relationship between war and identity is necessary, I take on a subset of those issues in this paper. I argue that certain assumptions about biology, ethnicity, genetics, and gender construct a permissive environment for sexual violence during war. I further argue that children born as a consequence of these policies represent the complexities of these identities in an important and illustrative manner. The ways in which they are perceived by their societies, governments, and families advance the assumptions about identity that underpin the policies that gave rise to their births in the first place. |
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| Weitsman, Patricia. "War and Identity: Policies Regarding Enemy Sexual Reproduction During Wartime" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-09 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209259_index.html> |
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| Weitsman, P. , 2007-08-30 "War and Identity: Policies Regarding Enemy Sexual Reproduction During Wartime" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-09 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209259_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: War is the ultimate cauldron of identity politics. The environment of heightened threat and hostility of war situations is both the consequence of identity clashes as well as fertile ground for deepened entrenchment of identities. While an in-depth examination of the relationship between war and identity is necessary, I take on a subset of those issues in this paper. I argue that certain assumptions about biology, ethnicity, genetics, and gender construct a permissive environment for sexual violence during war. I further argue that children born as a consequence of these policies represent the complexities of these identities in an important and illustrative manner. The ways in which they are perceived by their societies, governments, and families advance the assumptions about identity that underpin the policies that gave rise to their births in the first place. |
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| Women War and Identity Policies of Mass Rape in Bosnia and Rwanda Patricia A. Weitsman Department of Political Science Bentley Annex Ohio University Athens OH 45701 weitsman@ohiou.edu Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association August-September 2007. I. War and Identity Understanding war – its causes its prevention – is a quest that has driven scholars and practitioners for millennia. This has culminated in a voluminous literature that has facilitated our knowledge in profound ways. |
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