This document discusses how the idea that genocide can be accomplished through mass rape derives from a patriarchal definition of ethnicity, where a child's ethnicity is defined by their father. Under this definition, raping women of the conquered group and impregnating them could contribute to genocide by producing children belonging to the conquering group's ethnicity rather than the conquered group. The document argues that wartime rape serves to disrupt the conquered society according to this patriarchal view of ethnicity.

1. The Most Evil Academic Sin

7. The idea that genocide could be
accomplished by the mass rape of the women
of the enemy’s ethnic group derives from a
patriarchal definition of ethnicity.

8. A patriarchal definition of ethnicity results
in the idea that raping women and making
them pregnant will contribute to the
genocide of the conquered people.

9. A patriarchal definition of ethnicity results in
the idea that raping women and making them
pregnant will contribute to the genocide of the
conquered people (Turpin 326).

10. The rape of women in wartime, apart from the
obvious desire for sex and power on the part of
the conquering soldiers, may also, consciously
or unconsciously, serve as a means of disrupting
the society of the conquered people. Turpin
argues that a “patriarchal definition of
ethnicity” in which a child seen to inherit his
ethnicity from his father, results in the notion
that a woman becoming pregnant from a rape
will give birth to a child that belongs to the
new regime (326).