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February 22, 2001: Toward a Politics of the Vulnerable Body
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 18, Number 1, Winter 2003
- pp. 116-134
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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.