Angana P. Chatterji

A feminist scholar and public intellectual, is Co-chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Project at the Center for Race and Gender at University of California, Berkeley

Politics, Society

Women and Conflict in India Today

BY Angana P. Chatterji AND Liberte / February 27, 2017

Gendered violence is used as an act of power, tactic of torture, and weapon of desecration. Gendered and sexualized violence is not limited to isolated acts of individuals, but is used as a tool of oppression by both state functionaries and combatants to subjugate communities and silence dissent.