ABSTRACT
This chapter lays the ground for future discussions on the intersections between incestuous violence and subjectivity, and also for the questioning of the ethical pertinence of postulating humanness as a universal quality of the human species whilst ignoring the diversity that this category entails. No aspect of the administration of sexual exchanges and physical reproduction, as well as of dynamics of gender, ethnicity, and class, which form the main axis of this work, is foreign to a process of negotiation between changing discourses on humanity and animality. This book establishes that rather than prohibitions in relation to heterosexual intergenerational incestuous violence against women, what exists is a modulation of the conditions of possibility of such exchanges, whereby their reproductive consequences create a point after which symbolic, and even real death for the abused woman is the only possible outcome of such acts. Both traditional indigenous medicine and biomedical discourses become part of the structure where this political economy of sexual exchanges is reproduced through the exertion of violence against female survivors.
