Symposium: Debating (Wartime) Sexual Violence

[This is a post-publication review symposium] Significant debates in the literature on (conflict-related) gendered and sexualized violence have not been featured in the pages of International Studies Quarterly, which has only published a few pieces that focus explicitly on sexual violence (Eriksson Baaz and Stern 2009 and Leiby 2009). This forum on Sara Meger’s article on “The Fetishization of Sexual Violence in International Security” is thus a welcome occasion to reflect on the state of the literature on sexual violence in international-studies scholarship. [...]