Toward a Politics of the Vulnerable Body

Hypatia 18 (1):116-134 (2003)
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On February 22, 2001, three Bosnian Serb soldiers were found guilty of crimes against humanity. Their offense? Rape. This is the first time that rape has been prosecuted and condemned as a crime against humanity. Appealing to Jacques Derrida's democracy of the perhaps and Judith Butler's politics of performative contradiction, I see this judgment inaugurating a politics of the vulnerable body which challenges current understandings of evil, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

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10.1111/j.1527-2001.2003.tb00782.x

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15. The End of Sexual Difference?Judith Butler - 2001 - In Elisabeth Bronfen & Misha Kavka (eds.), Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century. Columbia University Press. pp. 414-434.

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