Table of Contents

Introduction - Samuel Totten

1. Women and the Armenian Genocide: The Victim, the Living Martyr - Rubina Peroomian

2. Women and the Holocaust - Helene J. Sinnreich

3. The Bangladesh Genocide: The Plight of Women - Angela Debnath

4. Death, Shattered Families, and Living as Widows in Cambodia - Judy Ledgerwood

5. The Plight and Fate of Women During the Crisis in the Former Yugoslavia - Ivana Macek

6. The Plight and Fate of Females During and Following the 1994 Rwandan Genocide - Samuel Totten

7. The Darfur Genocide: The Mass Rape of Black African Girls and Women - Samuel Totten

8. Rape as Genocide - Frances T. Pilch

9. The Evolution of Gender Crimes in International Law - Nicole Hallett

10. Prosecution of Gender-Based Acts of Genocide under International Law - Valerie Oosterveld

11. The Post-Genocidal Period and Its Impact on Women - Tazreena Sajjad

Contributors

Index

About the Author

Samuel Totten is co-editor of Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal. He is also the editor of the Transaction Series on Genocide Studies and co-editor of Pioneers of Genocide Studies, among other works.