Political Violence

Using cases from Nazi Germany, Serbia, and ISIS, Laura Sjoberg asks how wartime sexual violence by women is sensationalized while perpetrators’ agency, accountability, and legal position remain obscured.

Dara Kay Cohen compares 91 civil wars and three field cases to examine how forced recruitment, armed-group cohesion, and wartime rape reports relate - and where that explanation reaches its limits.

Laura Sjoberg and Caron E. Gentry analyze how violent women in global politics are explained away through gendered stories of motherhood, monstrosity, or sexuality.

Following a rape survivor through one night of hospitals and police stations, Kaouther Ben Hania exposes how institutions convert the demand for care into an ordeal of proof, shame, and intimidation.

Mai Masri’s prison drama follows a Palestinian teacher who gives birth in Israeli custody, locating motherhood, collective resistance, and political imprisonment within the same carceral space.

Sarah Maldoror follows Maria as she searches for her husband in colonial Angola, making women’s movement, care and communication part of the infrastructure of anticolonial resistance.