Schott Robin May
J Genocide Res. 2011;13(1-2):5-21. doi: 10.1080/14623528.2011.559111.
Feminist philosophy can make an important contribution to the field of genocide studies, and issues relating to gender and war are gaining new attention. In this article I trace legal and philosophical analyses of sexual violence against women in war. I analyze the strengths and limitations of the concept of social death—introduced into this field by Claudia Card—for understanding the genocidal features of war rape, and draw on the work of Hannah Arendt to understand the central harm of genocide as an assault on natality. The threat to natality posed by the harms of rape, forced pregnancy and forced maternity lie in the potential expulsion from the public world of certain groups—including women who are victims, members of the 'enemy' group, and children born of forced birth.
女性主义哲学能够对种族灭绝研究领域做出重要贡献，并且与性别和战争相关的问题正受到新的关注。在本文中，我追溯了对战争中针对妇女的性暴力的法律和哲学分析。我分析了克劳迪娅·卡德引入该领域的社会死亡概念在理解战争强奸的种族灭绝特征方面的优势和局限性，并借鉴汉娜·阿伦特的著作来理解种族灭绝的核心危害是对生育能力的攻击。强奸、强迫怀孕和强迫生育所造成的危害对生育能力构成的威胁在于，某些群体——包括受害者女性、“敌方”群体成员以及强迫生育所生的儿童——有可能被排除在公共世界之外。
