Theorizing sexual violence / edited by Renée J. Heberle and Victoria Grace.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heberle, Renée, 1962-

Grace, Victoria.

Series:

Routledge research in gender and society ; 21.

Routledge research in gender and society ; 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex crimes.

Women--Crimes against.

Women.

Abused women.

Rape.

Sex offenders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking sexual violence in the form of rape and hetero-psychological/physical abuse, trafficking, and harassment as a point of departure, the authors of this volume explore questions about the relationship between sex, sexuality and violence in order to better understand the terms on which women's sexual suffering is perpetuated, thereby undermining their capacity for personhood and autonomy. This volume perceives that while sexual violence as a phenomenon is heavily researched, it remains under-theorized. With anti-essentialist views of gender identity, of subjectivity and agency, and of ra

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Theorizing Sexual Violence: Subjectivity and Politics in Late Modernity; 1 Sexual Violence and Objectification; 2 Gendered Violence and Sacrificial Logics: Psychoanalytic Reflections; 3 'Reality Check': Rethinking the Ethics of Vulnerability; 4 Of Shards, Subjectivities, and the Refusal to 'Heal': Refiguring the Damage of Incest; 5 Fighting Rape; 6 Rethinking the Social Contract: Masochism and Masculinist Violence; 7 Feminist Interrogations of Democracy, Sexual Violence, and the US Military

8 Feminism, International Law, and the Spectacular Violence of the 'Other': Decolonizing the Laws of WarContributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-21884-6

1-282-23489-7

9786612234897

0-203-87487-0

9780203874875

OCLC:

654779785