VICTORIA SANFORD is professor and chair of anthropology, as well as director of the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies at Lehman College, and doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.  She is the author of many books including Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala, and is the coeditor of Engaged Observer: Activism, Advocacy, and Anthropology.  KATERINA STEFATOS is an adjunct assistant professor at Lehman College (CUNY) and serves as the Hellenic Studies Program Coordinator at Columbia University in New York.  CECILIA SALVI is a doctoral student at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

"In this excellent book, the contributors consistently and compellingly question our assumptions about the state and gender violence in ways that will ground forthcoming scholarly conversations."  - Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber (City College of New York) "This wide-ranging volume documents the complicity of states in gender violence, from state perpetration of strategic sexual violence in some conflict settings – in Greece, Guatemala, Iraq, among others – to the neglect by states worldwide of women’s security and other basic needs in both war and peace. Essential reading for scholars and practitioners alike."- Elisabeth Jean Wood (Yale University)

• ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart One: State Violence, Gender, and Resistance1. Subaltern Bodies: Gender Violence, Sexual Torture, and Political Repression during the Greek Military Dictatorship (1967–1974)Katerina Stefatos2. Sexual Violence as a Weapon during the Guatemalan GenocideVictoria Sanford, Sofia Duyos-Álvarez, and Kathleen Dill3. Gender, Incarceration and Power Relations during the Irish Civil War (1922–1923)Laura McAtackney4. Resistance and Activism against State Violence in Chiapas, MexicoMelanie HoewerPart Two: The Continuum of Sexual Violence and the Role of the State5. Medical Record Review and Evidence of Mass Rape during the 2007/2008 Period of Post-Election Violence in KenyaMike Anastario6. The Force of Writing in Genocide: On Sexual Violence in the al-Anfal Operations and BeyondFazil Moradi7. Sexualized Bodies, Public Mutilation, and Torture at the Beginning of Indonesia’s New Order Regime (1965–66)Annie PohlmanPart Three: State Responses to Gender Violence8. Advances and Limits of Policing and Human Security for Women: Nicaragua in Comparative Perspective Shannon Drysdale Walsh9. The State to the Rescue? The Contested Terrain of Domestic Violence in Post-Communist RussiaMaija JÄppinen and Janet Elise Johnson10. The Absent State: Teen Mothers and New Patriarchal Forms of Gender Subordination Serena Cosgrove11. Anti-Trafficking Legislation, Gender Violence, and the StateCecilia M. SalviConclusion: Sex at the Security Council: Reflections on the Women, Peace and Security AgendaKimberly TheidonNotes on ContributorsIndex