Hey everyone, I'm gathering a large collection of resources for this subject - specifically "United States Military and rape" - from the incident in Okinawa to Civil War period rape, to sexual assault and attack within the US military against women and men.
If you wish to have access to the Dropbox I'm organizing, shoot me a message off list. -Sarah On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Chris Keating <chriskeatingw...@gmail.com>wrote: > On the whole I think our military history articles aren't great at dealing > with sexual violence, on a number of dimensions. > > For instance, there was a large amount of well-documented rape and sexual > mutiliation of Vietnamese women by U.S. forces in Vietnam, but the Vietnam > War article doesn't cover this. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Women_in_Vietnam > > You will be relieved to know that is has more paragraphs devoted to the > American nurses who served in Vietnam than to anything about Vietnamese > women. Apparently this is because, on the American side at least, "many > men reported that having women in the field with them boosted their morale. > Although this was not the women’s purpose, it was one positive result of > the their service." > > I'm sure you'll agree that a bit of morale-boosting is far more worthy of > comment than other services provided by nurses, e.g. medical care. > > Sexual violence by Americans in Vietnam is also missing from > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_rape - though of course that article does > adequately cover http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women - evidently > rape is better-covered when it is Asians doing the raping rather than being > raped. One wonders why. > > ;-) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > -- GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for Wikimedia <http://www.glamwiki.org> Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Art<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch> and Sarah Stierch Consulting *Historical, cultural & artistic research & advising.* ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.sarahstierch.com/
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