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UNINA9910454865703321 |
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Titolo |
Theorizing sexual violence [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Renée J. Heberle and Victoria Grace |
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New York, : Routledge, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-21884-6 |
1-282-23489-7 |
9786612234897 |
0-203-87487-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (235 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge research in gender and society ; ; 21 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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HeberleRenée <1962-> |
GraceVictoria |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sex crimes |
Women - Crimes against |
Abused women |
Rape |
Sex offenders |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Taking sexual violence in the form of rape and hetero-psychological/physical abuse, trafficking, and harassment as a point of |
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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 |
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