Debra B Bergoffen

Contesting the Politics of Genocidal Rape

Affirming the Dignity of the Vulnerable Body

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

When the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) tried and convicted the Bosnian Serb soldiers who raped and sexually enslaved Muslim women and girls, it broke new legal and philosophical ground. In addition to identifying genocidal rape as a crime against humanity, the court, in finding that the rapes violated the women's right to sexual self-determination, created a new human right - the right to sexual integrity. In grounding this human right in a woman's body, a body traditionally gendered and stigmatized as vulnerable, this book argues, the ICTY transformed vulnerability from a sign of shame into a mark of our humanity. Doing this, the court directs us to challenge current meanings of bodily integrity and human dignity insofar as they define human rights as protecting the invulnerability of the body rather than as guaranteeing the dignity of the vulnerable body.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415891271
• ISBN-10: 0415891272
• Artikelnr.: 32309095

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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