Remembering to forget

Intergenerational memory for Rwandan women survivors of genocidal rape and children born of conflict-related sexual violence

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3616985
AutoresMyriam Denov (0000-0001-7963-1136, McGill University, autor de correspondencia), H Kang (0000-0001-7429-1101), Shu-Hua Kang (0009-0000-9169-819X, National Taipei University)
Año2025
Volumen35
Número3
Páginas1-8
Fecha de publicación2025-06-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09589236.2025.2527699
OpenAlexW4411816443
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas8

In 1994, during the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi, sexual violence was used as a powerful weapon of genocide, affecting an estimated 250,000–500,000 women and girls. Limited attention has been paid to the intergenerational implications of conflict-related sexual violence. This forum contribution draws on the voices of 44 Rwandan women who bore children as a result of rape, and 60 youth born of conflict-related sexual violence. We explore the realities of intergenerational memory, and the ways in which mothers and children born of conflict-related sexual violence sought meaning, new memories, and built relationships despite shared post-genocide discrimination, stigma and socio-economic marginalization

Criminology · Developmental psychology · Sexual violence · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Psychology