Gaby Zipfel
Initiator of the international research group ‘Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict’; researcher at the Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur. Previously editor of Mittelweg 36, the journal of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. She is also a member of the Eurozine Advisory Board.
Articles
"Beyond good and evil for once!"
"Authorized transgressions" and women in wartime
What exactly were the implications of World War I for the gender hierarchy of the western world? Gaby Zipfel argues for frank, not to mention long overdue, discussion of when and how women and men encounter one other in war.

‘Blood, sperm and tears’
Sexual violence in war
The societal condemnation of sexual crimes as a war-time practice is slowly growing as the victims raise the courage to speak out.