Rights of the body and perversions of war: Sexual rights and wrongs ten years past Beijing

International Social Science Journal

Volumn , Issue 184, 2005, Pages 301-318

  Petchesky, Rosalind Pollack ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RIGHTS; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; TERRORISM; VIOLENCE; WAR; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUJARAT; INDIA; IRAQ; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33745210114     PISSN: 00208701     EISSN: 14682451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2451.2005.552.x     Document Type: Article

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