Anderson's Ethical Vulnerability
Animating Feminist Responses to Sexual Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774769 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily Cousens (0000-0002-7571-3705, London School of Economics and Political Science) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 165-180 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2020.1717799 |
| OpenAlex | W3007703414 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 43 |
Pamela Sue Anderson argues for an ethical vulnerability which “activates an openness to becoming changed” that “can make possible a relational accountability to one another on ethical matters”. In this essay I pursue Anderson’s solicitation that there is a positive politics to be developed from acknowledging and affirming vulnerability. I propose that this politics is one which has a specific relevance for animating the terms of feminist responses to sexual violence, something which has proved difficult for feminist theorists and activists alike. I will demonstrate the contribution of Anderson’s work to such questions by examining the way in which “ethical vulnerability” as a framework can illuminate the intersectional feminist character of Tarana Burke’s grassroots Me Too movement when compared with the mainstream, viral version of the movement. I conclude by arguing that Anderson’s “ethical vulnerability” contains ontological insights which can allay both activist and academic concerns regarding how to respond to sexual violence
Criminology · Environmental ethics · Grassroots · Mainstream · Openness to experience · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Psychology · Gender Studies · Law · Social Psychology
Speaking Out
Butler and Ethics
When Justice and Forgiveness Come Apart
MeToo in Japan and South Korea
Analyzing Violence Against Women
Vulnerability in Resistance
Golden Gulag
Black Feminist Thought
Sexual Necropolitics and Prison Rape Elimination
The shifting terrain of sex and power
Terrorist Assemblages
Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies
The Geography of Rape
Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary
Me too, #MeToo
All of Us Are Vulnerable, But Some Are More Vulnerable than Others
Ambiguities and dilemmas around #MeToo
Pink Chaddis and SlutWalk Couture
Imperilled Muslim Women, Dangerous Muslim Men and Civilised Europeans
From Consent to Responsibility, from Pity to Respect
Vulnerability, Ignorance, and Oppression
Sexual Violence Against Women
Relational Accountability
Rape, Racism and the Capitalist Setting
Reply from Judith Butler to Mills and Jenkins
Post‐feminism and popular culture
Terrorist Assemblages
Touching Feeling
Living a Feminist Life
The Formative Power of Metony#metoo
Genderbashing
Sexual Harassment
MeToo
Lessons in Self-Defense
Rape and Respectability
Vulnerability and Victimization
Toward a New Feminist Theory of Rape
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |