Abstract:Christina Lamb’s Our Bodies Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women? explains that men’s sexual violence is designed to humiliate women and entire communities in a war context. Furthermore, Lamb’s study highlights women's testimony in fighting stigmatisation and ostracisation in conservative societies. The study also discusses the physical, psychological, legal and socio-economic problems women face because of the violence done to them. In particular, the author emphasizes the historical failure of the natio… Show more
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