ABSTRACT
Anderson's ethical vulnerability provides a framework for responding to sexual violence which addresses the problems that feminists have faced and incorporates these fundamental intersectional criteria. Anderson's ethical vulnerability has intersectional insights, then, as it directs a focus away from individuals or social identities and towards power inequalities instead. In this chapter, the author have argued that the contention that it is as vulnerable beings that they are open to transformation in both negative and positive directions has implications for longstanding questions within feminism regarding how to respond in an intersectional feminist manner to instances of sexual violence. The author ended by exposing the shortcomings of mainstream sexual violence discourses which do not incorporate the insights of Anderson's ethical vulnerability. Ethical vulnerability entails an ontology of the transforming subject and such an ontology is political in its implications for reparative responses to sexual violence.
