ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a synopsis of sexual violence in war. The short synopsis helps to position the study of sexual violence and illustrates how it has occurred on a holistic level while having minimal success in attracting international attention until the 1990s. The discussion of the historical occurrence of sexual violence will be followed by a comparative analysis of feminist debates surrounding sexual violence. In order to develop a cohesive study of feminist analysis of sexual violence liberal, standpoint, and post-structural feminist theory will be used to engage in the topic of sexual violence. By engaging in feminist theories, the chapter contains the seeds in which to develop methods to think about subjects beyond wartime sexual violence. It builds the possibilities in which questions surrounding children born of wartime sexual violence can be theorized. It aims to situate sexual violence within the study of ontology and epistemology.
