Gender and Collective Reparations in the Aftermath of Conflict and Political Repression

  • Ruth Rubio-Marín

Summary

Policies of compensation, restitution, or rehabilitation of victims can be used to help transform inherited gender-based stigmas and hierarchies that predated the conflict, but they can also affirm and reproduce those stigmas and hierarchies.

Citation

Rubio-Marín, Ruth. “Gender and Collective Reparations in the Aftermath of Conflict and Political Repression.” In The Gender of Reparations: Unsettling Sexual Hierarchies While Redressing Human Rights Violations, edited by Ruth Rubio-Marin, 381-402, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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