CONTENTS
5 Editorial
Women
9 Interview with Mary Robinson
President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative
Articles
19 Between Amazons and Sabines: a historical approach to women
and war
Ire`ne Herrmann and Daniel Palmieri
31 The dialogue of difference: gender perspectives on international
humanitarian law
Helen Durham and Katie O’Byrne
53 Women fighters and the ‘beautiful soul’ narrative
Laura Sjoberg
69 Women’s participation in the Rwandan genocide: mothers or
monsters?
Nicole Hogg
103 From helplessness to agency: examining the plurality of women’s
experiences in armed conflict
Medina Haeri and Nadine Puechguirbal
123 Women in detention
Julie Ashdown and Mel James
143 Women, armed conflict and language – Gender, violence and
discourse
Laura J. Shepherd
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161 Women, economy, war
Carolyn Nordstrom
177 ‘They came with two guns’: the consequences of sexual violence
for the mental health of women in armed conflicts
Evelyne Josse
197 The Security Council on women in war: between peacebuilding and
humanitarian protection
Alain-Guy Tachou-Sipowo
221 UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 1820: constructing
gender in armed conflict and international humanitarian law
Amy Barrow
235 Between rhetoric and reality: exploring the impact of military
humanitarian intervention upon sexual violence – post-conflict
sex trafficking in Kosovo
Samantha T. Godec
259 Lost in translation: UN responses to sexual violence against men
and boys in situations of armed conflict
Sandesh Sivakumaran
Reports and documents
279 National implementation of international humanitarian law
Biannual updates on national legislation and case law
July – December 2009
Books and articles
289 Recent acquisitions of the Library and Research Service, ICRC