Womenâs Bodies, Menâs War: the Political Economy of Military Rape and Gender Violence

Paromita Chakrabarti

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This chapter will analyse the gendered nature of violence during the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh through an examination of rape as a politico-military strategy and mechanism of institutionalized control, subjugation and disempowerment of women. In order to understand the ways in which wartime rape is framed within the paradigms of gender, and is constitutive of economic and political imperatives, I will analyse Pakistani-American writer Sorayya Khanâs novel Noor (2004) with special reference to the large-scale rapes that took place in erstwhile East Pakistan during the 1971 liberation war. The novel opens up the discourse on war-time violence to both political and socio-economic perspectives and makes it possible to see it as much more than simply a military inevitability and/or collateral damage. When wartime rape is seen as a socially constructed and a politically constituted experience it is easier to comprehend its conjectural temporality and recognize it as neither inevitable nor unchangeable. By studying the rape and sexual assault of Bengali women as central military strategy, Noor helps re-locate the liberation war and the mass rape of 1971 within national political discourse and shows how wartime rape in East Pakistan was practiced to systematically eliminate a particular ethnic group; designed to drive women from their homes, make them useless and unproductive, or destroy the possibility of their reproducing within and for the community. Locating military sexual violence within these paradigms facilitates a greater chance of recovery and reintegration of raped women in the community. Expanding the discourse on rape to include its economic and strategic dimensions compel governments to become more accountable, force institutional initiatives to alleviate suffering, expedite prosecution of perpetrators and facilitate peace-building and reconciliation.

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Violence: Probing the Boundaries around the World

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