ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses few anecdotal examples of women playing the political neutral in both international and national structures and in both sexual/ reproductive legislation and broader political theory. It addresses a number of implications of both the woman citizen as the norm and this collapse of sexual and reproductive crime into one. When bodily integrity trespass rather than pain takes over as the right in need of protection, however, the political subject is immediately assumed to be female. When in 1922, for instance, the compilers of the annual Red Cross report repeatedly insisted upon the close relationship of a nation's health to the condition of a nation's womanhood, Red Cross 1922. A second scholar, writing more specifically about the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY's) February 22, 2001 conclusion that rape and sexual enslavement were violations of sufficient gravity to be considered as crimes against humanity, is less critical of recent trends in international law.
