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Women are not only the victims of wartime sexual violence, but can also be the perpetrators.[1][2][3]   A study done by Dara Kay Cohen found evidence in interviews with former combatants of female fighters committing gang rape against both men and women during conflict in Sierra Leone.[4] Likewise, data from a study from the Journal of the America Medical Association found that in the Democratic Republic of the Congo women committed 41.1% of the total sexual violence against women, and 10% of the total sexual violence against men.[5] Laura Sjoberg states that the perpetration of wartime sexual violence by women “contradicts the dominant narrative about what a woman is generally and about women’s capacity for violence specifically.”[6]

  1. ^ Alison, Miranda (2007). "Wartime Sexual Violence: Women's Human Rights and Questions of Masculinity". Review of International Studies,. 33: 84 – via JSTOR.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  2. ^ Faedi, Benedetta (2010). "From violence against women to women's violence in Haiti". Colombia Journal of Gender and Law. 19: 1052 – via EBSCOhost.
  3. ^ Vikman, Elisabeth (2005). "Modern Combat: Sexual Violence in Warfare, Part II". Anthropology & Medicine. 12: 42.
  4. ^ Cohen, Dara Kay (2013). "Female Combatants and the Perpetration of Violence: Wartime Rape in the Sierra Leone War". World Politics. 65: 384 – via JSTOR.
  5. ^ Johnson, Kirsten; Scott, Jennifer; Rughita, Bigy; Kisielewski, Michael; Asher, Jana; Ong, Ricardo; Lawry, Lynn (2010). "Association of Sexual Violence and Human Rights Violations With Physical and Mental Health in Territories of the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo". Journal of the American Medical Association. 305: 558.
  6. ^ Sjoberg, Laura (2009). "Women and the Genocidal Rape of Women: The Gender Dynamics of Gendered War Crimes". Paper Prepared for Presentation at the 2009 Annua Meeting of the International Studies Association: 13.