Theorizing sexual violence

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Examining sexual violence, the authors of this volume take up questions about the relationship between sex, sexuality and violence to better understand the terms on which women's sexual suffering is perpetuated, thereby undermining€their capacity for personhood and autonomy.

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

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Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

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Description:1 online resource (xiii, 220 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781135218836, 1135218838, 9780203874875, 0203874870, 1135218846, 9781135218843, 1282234897, 9781282234895, 9786612234897, 661223489X
oclc:ocn654779785
LC Classification:HV6556
Dewey Decimal:364.15/3

Introduction: theorizing sexual violence: subjectivity and politics in late modernity / Renée J. Heberle and Victoria Grace -- Sexual violence and objectification / Ann J. Cahill -- Gendered violence and sacrificial logics: psychoanalytic reflections / Victoria Grace -- 'Reality check': rethinking the ethics of vulnerability / Ann V. Murphy -- Of shards, subjectives, and the refusal to 'heal': refiguring the damage of incest / Melanie Boyd -- Fighting rape / Nicola Gavey -- Rethinking the social contract: masochism and masculinist violence / Renée J. Heberle -- Feminist interrogations of democracy, sexual violence, and the US military / Meghana Nayak -- Feminism, international law, and the spectacular violence of the 'other': decolonizing the laws of war / Elizabeth Philipose.

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Abused women Battered Women Crime Victims Crimes sexuels Délinquants sexuels Femmes -- Crimes contre Femmes victimes de violence Rape Sex crimes Sex offenders Sex Offenses SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sexual Abuse & Harass… Viol Women -- Crimes against