Culture of misogyny, illegal occupation, fuel sexual violence in military

Friday, August 1, 2008

Author:

Helen Benedict

An alarming number of women soldiers are being sexually abused by their comrades-in-arms, both at war and at home. This fact has received a fair amount of attention lately from researchers and the press and deservedly so.

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