Rape as a Political Tool and as a Weapon of War
Rape as a Political Tool and as a Weapon of War

Summary/Abstract: In “Swastika Night” writer Katharine Burdekin, was already imagining a future seven hundred years after the Nazis had triumphed and the world divided into spheres of German and Japanese influence. The book portrays all women who live in separate, caged-off districts and they indoctrinated on two main points: They should never oppose any man (rape, as a concept, no longer exists), and they must handover their male babies without fuss. Although this is a fiction novel, the idea related to women in this book supported by lots of religion or beliefs or cultures. From the very beginning, the women in various societies of the world exploited in many ways. The male-dominated world does not appreciate it. Also, there are some tools in the society, which are used by the man as a violence method to discipline the women. During the 1970s, feminists often argued that rape was not "about" sex but was instead an assault: an act of violence moreover this rape culture has been ingrained in the minds of most people in the societies. Rape is a political practice like the other methods of sexual violence by which false beliefs about gender and sexuality expressed, inscribed, and enforced via the violation and control of women's bodies33. Act of rape confirms that women are ‘for’ men: to be used, dominated, treated as objects. This underlying gender ideology helps us to understand and explain why, when men and boys are raped, they are usually seen as having been feminized, treated like women and thus rendered shamefully woman-like. In this context, rape is defined as one of the sexual violence methods in the international legal documents. The aim of this article not to discuss in general the rape or rape cultures in the societies, but it is outlining how the rape is used as a political tool and a weapon of war in conflict time and capturing the reaction of international law and international bodies on this matters.

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