Theorizing sexual violence

Heberle, Renée. Grace, Victoria.

Theorizing sexual violence /Renée Heberle. - , New York : Routledge , 2009 - xiii, 220 pages :24cm.

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

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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