Jill Trenholm defends PhD thesis

The full title is Women Survivors, Lost Children and Traumatized Masculinities: The Phenomena of Rape and War in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and the thesis aims to investigate war rape in order to understand the dynamics, contextual realities and consequences of its perpetration.

"Findings draw attention to the challenges faced by public health in addressing mass trauma. Women’s raped bodies represent tangible material damage, embedded in a matrix of globalization processes and structural violence involving gender, ethnicity and class. This requires serious reflection", Jill Trenholm writes in her thesis.

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The public defence will be held on Thursday September 19 at 09.00 in room IX, Old University Building, Biskopsgatan 3.

During her doctoral studies, Jill Trenholm has been employed by the Department of Women's and Children's Health, International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH), and the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University.

Supervisors are Adjunct Professor Beth Maina-Ahlberg and Associate Professor Pia Olsson, both at the Department of Women's and Children's Health, International Maternal and Child Health, and Associate Professor Martha Blomqvist from the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University. Opponent is Professor Gillian Lewanda Hundt from University of Warwick.