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Date Added to Site: 15th November 2006 |
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Short Summary
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Rights of the Body and Perversions of War: Sexual Rights and Wrongs Ten Years Past Beijing
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| Author |
Petchesky, R. |
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June 2005 |
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) |
| Volume |
International Social Science Journal |
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special issue on Beijing+10 |
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Short Summary
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Much groundbreaking work has been done by the movement against Violence against Women. At the same time, however, the emphasis on violence has produced an image of third world women as helpless victims of culture which dovetails with right wing rhetoric about preserving women's chastity. In contrast to women, sexual violence against men has been less visible. However, with Abu Ghraib, the sexual humiliation and torture of Iraqi men became visible throughout the world. This was partly a strategy of war, designed to spread far and wide the images of what US “intelligence” had identified as particularly humiliating images in terms of Muslim cultural phobias, and in terms of the views of the US Christian right themselves: presenting men as less than men, or as 'homosexualised'. This paper argues that twenty first century perpetual war, as well as the new possibilities of sexual rights mobilising, call for a recasting of the bodily integrity rights formulated in Cairo and Beijing. We need to move beyond approaches which cast women as victims and men as invulnerable, and forge alliances between women's movements and others mobilising for sexual and bodily rights. We need to move beyond the focus only on violence to ask for positive rights as well.
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| Complete Document |
 http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1468-2451.2005.552.x?cook...
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