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Gender and Violence in Haiti: Women’s Path from Victims to Agents, written by Benedetta Faedi Duramy
Benedetta Faedi Duramy,
In this book, Benedetta Duramy explores a theme not often addressed in the literature about gender-based violence, that of female participants. She argues that in the context of civil conflicts, the conventional wisdom is to explain the prevalence of sexual violence within a framework of a social division of labor, with men as perpetrators and women as continued victims. The book questions this approach, showing how, in Haiti, women