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The war and the frailty of right, 2000, n. 47, pp. 34-38
In front of the war, the appeal to human rights and to international treatises appears inadequate and disproportionate. Any appeal to reason looks dramatically helpless. War is a time without rights which suspends all previous social contracts and endangers future human cohabitation.
Historically, women have been aware of the false promises of right and rights and are well suited to underline their failures and limits; women can effectively criticise their language and forms. Hence, through their personal experiences, women can explain the mechanisms employed for the symbolic creation of a weak person - a woman, a refugee, a persecuted - who must be helped even at the price of her/his autonomous choice.
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BARTOLONI Stefania (edited by), Società italiana delle storiche, A
volto scoperto. Donne e Diritti umani, Roma, Manifestolibri, 2002
rev. by Marina Graziosi, 2002, n. 1-2,
pp. 118-120