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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824966003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-21884-6

1-282-23489-7

9786612234897

0-203-87487-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in gender and society ; ; 21

Altri autori (Persone)

HeberleRenée <1962->

GraceVictoria

Disciplina

364.15/3

Soggetti

Sex crimes

Women - Crimes against

Abused women

Rape

Sex offenders

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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