ABSTRACT
The ability to consent and the right to bodily integrity come together, therefore, as fundamental indicators of the active citizen precisely as this citizen is redefined in spatial termsat the moment that the trespassing of boundaries replaces violent attack as the defining characteristic of sexual, reproductive, and political crime. The citizen's body was a political space, and the nature of this space was articulated above all in legislation having to do with sexuality and reproduction. Sexual and reproductive law at both the national and international level has, according to the argument, in no way secured the individual freedom or liberty of women citizens. The purpose of the various laws has been to define a collective, to delimit civilizational boundaries, and to posit basic friend/enemy distinctions whether these distinctions are based on an East/West divide, a Europe/not-Europe divide, or smaller national units.
