Theorizing sexual violence

Taking sexual violence in the form of rape and hetero-psychological/physical abuse, trafficking, and harassment as a point of departure, the authors of this volume explore questions about the relationship between sex, sexuality and violence in order to better understand the terms on which women'...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Heberle, Renée, 1962- (-), Grace, Victoria
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge 2009.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Routledge research in gender and society ; 21.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798362506719
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Theorizing Sexual Violence: Subjectivity and Politics in Late Modernity; 1 Sexual Violence and Objectification; 2 Gendered Violence and Sacrificial Logics: Psychoanalytic Reflections; 3 'Reality Check': Rethinking the Ethics of Vulnerability; 4 Of Shards, Subjectivities, and the Refusal to 'Heal': Refiguring the Damage of Incest; 5 Fighting Rape; 6 Rethinking the Social Contract: Masochism and Masculinist Violence; 7 Feminist Interrogations of Democracy, Sexual Violence, and the US Military
  • 8 Feminism, International Law, and the Spectacular Violence of the 'Other': Decolonizing the Laws of WarContributors; Index