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5 Hastings Women's L.J. 267 (1994)
A Response to Catherine MacKinnon's Article Turning Rape into Pornography: Postmodern Genocide

handle is hein.journals/haswo5 and id is 275 raw text is: A Response to Catharine MacKinnon's Article Turning Rape Into Pornography: Postmodern Genocide* Vesna Kesic** INTRODUCTION Catharine MacKinnon, as is widely known, has instituted a civil lawsuit against Radovan Karad i6, the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, for genocidal acts of rape, forced pregnancy, enforced prostitution, other forms of torture, and extrajudicial killings. I fully support this action, as do the women's groups with which I work and, presumably, all feminist organizations in Croatia and the rest of the world, including those in Belgrade. We all are working to have war rape recognized and prosecuted as a war crime and to expose the inadequate recognition and treatment of these violations of women's human rights under current international and national laws. 'Ru-ning Rape Into Pornography: Postmodern Genocide presents MacKinnon's development of her theories that address the conceptual and factual background of mass rape in this war. Her development of these theories, however, not only ignores and supplants the work already undertaken by feminists around the world but also disregards essential facts. MacKinnon's theories will not help to solve the problems in the former Yugoslavia; they will not help to end the war or to stop the rapes and other atrocities inflicted against women; nor will they help to re-establish any type of civil cohabitation between south Slavic people in the future. I also doubt that her methods will bring justice and satisfaction, or relief, to the * The center of this critique is Catharine A. MacKinnon's article Turning Rape Into Pornography: Postmodern Genocide, Ms., July/Aug. 1993, at 24. ** Vesna Kesic graduated with degrees in psychology and sociology at Zagreb University. For 17 years she has worked as a professional journalist and editor in the former Yugoslavia. Since the beginning of the war in former Yugoslavia she has been active in anti-war and feminist activities. She is a co-founder of Initiative for Freedom of Public Expression, Alternative Information Network, Center for Women War Victims, Zagreb Women's Lobby, and B.a.B.e., a new women's rights group which stands for Be active, be emancipated! HASTINGS WOMEN'S LAW JOURNAL M

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