An Antipunitive Feminist Reading of the Victim/Victimizer's Dichotomy

Abstract

This work shows how and why an antipunitivist feminist reading is necessary to account, on the one hand, how punitivist categories exercise their logic power from processes of de-subjetivation that imply the social, cultural and institutional roots of the punitive reasons; while on the other hand, they make visible how and in what way the punitivist system makes use of sexual and gender differences to justify the naturalization of classifying categories such as the victim/victimizer binomial. Finally, this work shows how and why these readings allow theorizing around certain controversies inherent to feminisms.