Rape and Resistance

Sexual violence has become a topic of intense media scrutiny, thanks to the bravery of survivors coming forward to tell their stories. But, unfortunately, mainstream public spheres too often echo reports in a way that inhibits proper understanding of its causes, placing too much emphasis on individual responsibility or blaming minority cultures. In this powerful and original book, Linda MartIn Alcoff aims to correct the misleading language of public debate about rape and sexual violence by showing how complex our experiences of sexual violation can be. Although it is survivors who have galvanized movements like #MeToo, when their words enter the public arena they can be manipulated or interpreted in a way that damages their effectiveness. Rather than assuming that all experiences of sexual violence are universal, we need to be more sensitive to the local and personal contexts - who is speaking and in what circumstances - that affect how activists' and survivors' protests will be received and understood. Alcoff has written a book that will revolutionize the way we think about rape, finally putting the survivor center stage.

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Intro; Table of Contents; Dedication; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgments; Text Acknowledgments; Introduction: Rape after Foucault; Gray Areas; Managing the Problem; Sexual Violation; The Problematic of Foucault; An Agenda for Theory; Coda; Note; 1: Global Resistance: A New Agenda for Theory; A Period of Heightened Visibility; Reasonable Goals; The Complicated Echoes Surrounding Sexual Violation; The Specific Challenges to Speaking Out; Steps Toward Change; Conclusion; Note; 2: The Thorny Question of Experience; The Subjective Nature of Experience; Ideology and Experience; Foucault.

Rape ScriptsInterpretations All the Way Down?; A Phenomenological Approach; Experience as Know-How; Note; 3: Norming Sexual Practices; The Case Against Norms; Foucault on Normalization; The Case of Jouy; Children and the Law; An Alternative Approach to Norming; Notes; 4: Sexual Subjectivity; Formative Effects of Violations; Consent, Desire, Pleasure, Will; Technologies of the Sexual Self; Conclusion; Notes; 5: Decolonizing Terms; Consent; Honor; Victim; Conclusion; Notes; 6: Speaking "as"; The Reality of TV; Discourse and Power; Pragmatic Contexts of Speech; Confessions.

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