Hey everyone,
I'm gathering a large collection of resources for this subject -
specifically "United States Military and rape" - from the incident in
Okinawa to Civil War period rape, to sexual assault and attack within the US
military against women and men.
If you wish to have access to the Dropbox I'm organizing, shoot me a message
off list.
-Sarah
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On the whole I think our military history articles
aren't great at dealing
with sexual violence, on a number of dimensions.
For instance, there was a large amount of well-documented rape and sexual
mutiliation of Vietnamese women by U.S. forces in Vietnam, but the Vietnam
War article doesn't cover this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Women_in_Vietnam
You will be relieved to know that is has more paragraphs devoted to the
American nurses who served in Vietnam than to anything about Vietnamese
women. Apparently this is because, on the American side at least, "many
men reported that having women in the field with them boosted their morale.
Although this was not the women’s purpose, it was one positive result of
the their service."
I'm sure you'll agree that a bit of morale-boosting is far more worthy of
comment than other services provided by nurses, e.g. medical care.
Sexual violence by Americans in Vietnam is also missing from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_rape - though of course that article does
adequately cover
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women - evidently
rape is better-covered when it is Asians doing the raping rather than being
raped. One wonders why.
;-)
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