Looting and Rape in Wartime: Law and Change in International Relations

by Tuba Inal

Book Overview

Women were historically treated in wartime as property. Yet in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, prohibitions against pillaging property did not extend to the female body. There is a gap of nearly a hundred years between those early prohibitions of pillage and the prohibition of rape finally enacted in the Rome Statute of 1998. In Looting and Rape in Wartime, Tuba Inal addresses the development of these two separate "prohibition regimes,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812223845
• ISBN13: 9780812223842
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"