A Philosophical Investigation of Rape: The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self
Routledge (2009)
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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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Keywords | Rape Rape Philosophy Rape victims Psychology |
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Call number | HV6558.D88 2009 |
ISBN(s) | 0415990297 9780415990295 0415536561 |
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