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M. A. Fineman and A. Grear (eds.): Vulnerability: Reflections on a New Ethical Foundation for Law and Politics

Ashgate, 2013, 236 pp, £35.00, ISBN 978-1-4724-2165-4

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  1. Other notable feminist authors that have enriched the concept of embodied vulnerability perspectives include Judith Butler, Margrit Schildrick, Bryan Turner, Adriana Cavarero.

  2. The linguistic links between vulnerability and law are interesting. Upon a closer inspection of the etymology of wounding and injury, vulnus derives from ‘wound’ in Latin, while ‘injury’ expresses the intervention of the law—compare in-jus which is translated into ‘in-right’ while in-juria is translated as ‘a wrong in law’.

  3. Physical and human assets primarily affect the material well-being and are tightly connected to the social assets, which are the networks of relations “from which we gain support and strength,” they are the collectives by which we can address vulnerabilities generated by the market (Fineman 2013, 22–23). Equally important are the ecological and existential resources. The first shapes our circumstances and our needs, while existential resources are the source of our creative capacity to understand, give meaning, and change our responses and conditions.

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Haas, N.U. M. A. Fineman and A. Grear (eds.): Vulnerability: Reflections on a New Ethical Foundation for Law and Politics. Fem Leg Stud 22, 335–339 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-014-9261-5

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