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February 22, 2001: Toward a Politics of the Vulnerable Body

From: Hypatia
Volume 18, Number 1, Winter 2003
pp. 116-134 | 10.1353/hyp.2003.0002

Abstract

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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