A Philosophical Investigation of Rape: The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self
Louise du ToitThis book offers a critical feminist perspective on the widely debated topic of transitional justice and forgiveness. Louise Du Toit examines the phenomenon of rape with a feminist philosophical discourse concerning women’s or ‘feminine’ subjectivity and selfhood. She demonstrates how the hierarchical dichotomy of male active versus female passive sexuality – which obscures the true nature of rape – is embedded in the dominant western symbolic frame. Through a Hegelian and phenomenological reading of first-person accounts by rape victims, she excavates an understanding of rape that also starts to open up a way out of the denial and destruction of female sexual subjectivity.
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Year:
2009
Edition:
1
Publisher:
Routledge
Language:
english
Pages:
257
ISBN 10:
0203397851
ISBN 13:
9780415990295
Series:
Routledge Research in Gender and Society
File:
PDF, 1.93 MB
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english, 2009