1st Edition
Contesting the Politics of Genocidal Rape Affirming the Dignity of the Vulnerable Body
By Debra B. Bergoffen
Copyright 2012
144 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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Rape, traditionally a spoil of war, became a weapon of war in the ethnic cleansing campaign in Bosnia. The ICTY Kunarac court responded by transforming wartime rape from an ignored crime into a crime against humanity. In its judgment, the court argued that the rapists violated the Muslim women’s right to sexual self-determination. Announcing this right to sexual integrity, the court transformed... Read more
1. The Case: Vulnerable Body on Trial 2. Slavery, Torture Rape: Assaulting the Dignity of the Vulnerable Body 3. Genocidal Rape as Spectacle 4. The Verdict: Affirming the Dignity of the Vulnerable Body 5. Representing the Human: The Lingua Franca of Human Rights 6. Of the Politics and Pleasures of the Vulnerable Body
Biography
Debra B. Bergoffen is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at George Mason University.
