Introduction: Andre Smith

The introduction does exactly what the title says it does. It introduces and talks about what each of the next chapters will be about. All the chapter have something to do with violence of some sort ranging from sexual violence to an anti violence strategy. It touches on a little from every chapter.

Some key points would have to be how she says that rape encompasses a wide range of strategies not designed to not only destroy peoples but to destroy their sense of being. That is a great point because once you are a victim of sexual violence you are changed. You become someone who you never was before. Also the fact that with genocide comes sexual violence, is great because thinking of all the genocides I can, I can remember that rape has almost always occurred.

"I argue that sexual violence is a tool by which certain peoples become marked as inherently 'rapable'." This quote carries so much because I have never thought of it is a way to mark someone as "rapable". I would some people are more vulnerable, but "rapable" is a new way of looking at it. I do agree that combined with sexual violence you can become a person maybe more susceptible to another act of violence.