Theorizing Sexual Violence

by Heberle, Renee J.; Grace, Victoria

• ISBN13: 9780203874875
• ISBN10: 0203874870
• Copyright: 2009-06-29
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Examining sexual violence, the authors of this volume take up questions about the relationship between sex, sexuality and violence to better understand the terms on which women s sexual suffering is perpetuated, thereby undermining their capacity for personhood and autonomy.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction: Theorizing Sexual Violence: Subjectivity and Politics in Late Modernity

Sexual Violence and Objectification

Gendered Violence and Sacrificial Logics: Psychoanalytic Reflections

'Reality Check': Rethinking the Ethics of Vulnerability

Of Shards, Subjectivities, and the Refusal to 'Heal': Refiguring the Damage of Incest

Fighting Rape

Rethinking the Social Contract: Masochism and Masculinist Violence

Feminist Interrogations of Democracy, Sexual Violence, and the U.S. Military

Feminism, International Law, and the Spectacular Violence of the 'Other': Decolonizing the Laws of War

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