| A Philosophical Investigation of Rape: The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self Contributor(s): Du Toit, Louise (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415536561 ISBN-13: 9780415536561 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 362.883 |
| Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6" W x 9" (0.77 lbs) 244 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |