ABSTRACT
Two researchers, Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern, are preparing for fieldwork for a new project on gender within the armed forces in a war torn African country. The project has been generously funded by the agency for global embetterment in the moral and gender-equal north. The researchers plan to better understand why soldiers rape the civilian population. At the same time, in a border town in the war torn country, or as it is known now, the rape capital of the world (RCOW), a famous playwright from 'the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave' supervises sweaty and skinny men in rags who struggle to hang her banner on the main street in the midst of muddy dust. In a nearby town, the two researchers, who are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with how sexual violence is framed in the policy community, have finally been convinced to visit the main attraction in the RCOW: the great hospital.
