Sexual Violence Wrong(ed) Bodies and Global Politics
Paula Drumond editor Marysia Zalewski editor Maria Stern editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:9th Dec '26
£187.99
This title is due to be published on 9th December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This book explores how sexual violence operates within and beyond the gender binary to produce hierarchies of harm, visibility, and humanity.
Building on insights from Sexual Violence Against Men in Global Politics (2018), it advances the concept of wrong(ed) bodies to capture how certain identities—queer, racialized, feminized, or otherwise non-normative—are simultaneously constructed as deviant and rendered vulnerable to violence. Scholars from international relations, feminist theory, queer studies, and psychology examine how sexual violence is narrated, counted, denied, and instrumentalized across a range of contexts: from prisons and warzones to medical institutions and refugee experiences. By foregrounding how heteronormativity, coloniality, and racial hierarchies shape these processes, the collection moves beyond victim typologies to ask how knowledge itself participates in the reproduction of violence. The book reframes sexual violence as a global political condition—a tragedy not only of bodily violation but of the epistemic and moral frameworks that dictate which bodies are seen, protected, or forgotten.
Accessible, informative, theoretically current, and innovative it will appeal to upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, academics, researchers, practitioners, policy makers, activists and the wider community.
" Is it even possible to comprehend sexual violence – what it is, what it is for? The enormity and outrage of it. The complicities with it and the failure to counter it.
This powerful collection invites us to understand and sense the wrong(s) of sexual violence, while keeping in sight the wrong(ed) bodies: gendered, sexed, racialized – and always already violable. Eye-opening, dislocating, and compelling, it conveys the world-making nature of the phenomenon.
Playing in multiple registers of knowing, it disrupts comfortable truths and offers us different inroads to grasping the utter complexity of sexual violence in global politics."
- Elisabeth Prügl. Professeure honoraire, International Relations, Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland.
“Read, re-read. Think, re-think. This is what I did as I digested ‘Sexual Violence, Wrong(ed) Bodies.’
As Drumond, Stern and Zalewski nudged me along, my feminist lens widened, my feminist curiosity plumbed deeper. They and their thoughtful contributors are making me - gratefully -realize we’re still only on the brink of understanding sexualized, militarized violence.”
- Cynthia Enloe, author of Twelve Feminist Lessons of War
" This edited volume urgently pushes beyond the gender binary, reframing sexual violence through the concept of "wrong(ed) bodies." Drawing on cases from diverse locations and contexts, Drumond, Stern and Zalewski assemble a courageous and truly global group of scholars confronting how race, coloniality, and heteronormativity shape whose suffering counts. This is the kind of powerful feminist research we need in the violent world we are navigating - essential and unflinching."
- Swati Parashar, Professor School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden.
ISBN: 9781041343943
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10 pages