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War rape, natality and genocide.

Robin May Schott

    Journal of Genocide Research
    |September 28, 2011
    PubMed
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    Feminist philosophy enhances genocide studies by examining sexual violence in war. Analyzing war rape through "social death" and "natality" reveals its genocidal threat to specific groups, particularly women and children.

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    Area of Science:

    • Feminist Philosophy
    • Genocide Studies
    • Legal and Philosophical Analysis

    Background:

    • Growing attention to gender and war issues in genocide studies.
    • Exploration of legal and philosophical frameworks for understanding sexual violence in conflict.
    • Introduction of Claudia Card's concept of social death to genocide studies.

    Observation:

    • Analysis of sexual violence against women in war through legal and philosophical lenses.
    • Evaluation of the strengths and limitations of the "social death" concept for war rape.
    • Application of Hannah Arendt's concept of "natality" to genocide's central harm.

    Findings:

    • War rape exhibits genocidal features when analyzed through the lens of social death.
    • Genocide's core harm is an assault on natality, the capacity for new beginnings.

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  • Sexual violence, including rape, forced pregnancy, and forced birth, threatens natality.

    • Implications:

    • Understanding genocide requires acknowledging its gendered dimensions and impact on women.
    • The concept of natality offers a framework for grasping the profound harm of genocidal sexual violence.
    • Expulsion from the public world of targeted groups, including women and children born of forced birth, is a key genocidal outcome.