Ambivalent Endings

Sexual Violence in the Italian Memory of World War II

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/1592-4467/12253

Keywords:

Rape, Colonialism, Memory, Occupation, Postwar

Abstract

Third contribution to the Forum World War II at 80.

Author Biography

Ruth Lawlor, Cornell University

Ruth Lawlor teaches diplomatic, military and global history at Cornell. She has published widely on law, gender and imperialism in the Second World War, and her book on sexual violence and the US military justice system is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

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Published

2025-09-10

Issue

Vol. 36 (2025): Reproductive Justice and Its Discontents: Recent Representations in American Popular Culture

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A Serialized Forum

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