Rape: weapon of war : women's rights -- Cover story: Genital mutilation / producer, Gail Ablow -- Alice Walker interview / producer, Gail Ablow.
Summary:
Promotes increased awareness of the universality of the crime of rape and of the urgent need for human rights for women revealed by the systematic rape of women in Bosnia by Serbian soldiers. Includes reports on worldwide state sponsored violence towards women and the international human rights movement to stop the violence through documentation of events in order to establish criminal charges and bring the violators to justice. Victims offer testimony of events in Bosnia, Kashmir, and Peru and a rape room is shown in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq. Female genital mutilation in Africa and Asia is described in personal testimony as well as in an interview with Alice Walker about her documentary films. Scenes from Fire Eyes and Warrior Marks are shown to demonstrate how mutilation is often performed, and Walker reads from her novel Possessing the Secret of Joy.
Series:
Rights and wrongs series
OCLC:
(OCoLC)32136836
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.