Contesting the Politics of Genocidal Rape: Affirming the Dignity of the Vulnerable Body

ISBN-13: 9780415891271 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 144 str.

Debra Bergoffen

Opis

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia responded to genocidal rape by Bosnian Serb soldiers by transforming wartime rape from an ignored crime into a crime against humanity. This book offers a close reading of the trial.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Debra B. Bergoffen is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at George Mason University.