Rethinking gender-based violence during war: Is violence against civilian men a problem worth addressing?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1548-1551

  Linos, Natalia ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Armed conflict; Gender; Gender based violence; Sex; Yugoslavia

Indexed keywords

CIVIL WAR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENDER ISSUE; HEALTH SERVICES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CONFLICT; VIOLENCE;

ARTICLE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CONFLICT; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; MASCULINITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL CRIME; STIGMA; VIOLENCE; WAR;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEN; SEX FACTORS; STEREOTYPING; SURVIVORS; VIOLENCE; WAR CRIMES; YUGOSLAVIA;

YUGOSLAVIA (PRE-1992);

EID: 63149118728     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.02.001     Document Type: Article

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