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Ana Lúcia Costa, « Vulnerability, sexual violence and the law », Revus, ID : 10.4000/revus.10132
This article examines the concept of vulnerability and is envisioned as a reply to Susanna Pozzolo’s ¿Vulnerabilidad personal o contextual? Aproximaciones al análisis del derecho en perspectiva de género. Although agreeing with the author on the usefulness of vulnerability as a heuristic instrument to make visible the flaws on the laws on sexual violence, I differ from her in the rejection to consider the body as a source of women’s vulnerability to sexual violence and in considering the non-mutually exclusive relation between vulnerability and autonomy relevant in what regards sexual violence. I further discuss the polysemic nature of vulnerability and the difficulties with the use of the concept in cases of sexual violence, which arise from that nature. I finish with a note of hope by considering the feminist political struggle over the meaning of vulnerability.