A Philosophical Investigation of Rape: The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self
This 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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A Philosophical Investigation of Rape: The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self
This 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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A Philosophical Investigation of Rape: The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self
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A Philosophical Investigation of Rape: The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self
256
210.0
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780415990295 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 04/15/2009 |
Series: | Routledge Research in Gender and Society , #19 |
Pages: | 256 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
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