1st Edition
A Philosophical Investigation of Rape The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self
By Louise du Toit
Copyright 2009
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction. 1. Rape, Forgiveness and Reconciliation 2. The Impossibility of Rape 3. The Possibility of Rape 4. Enigmatic Woman Facilitates Man’s Becoming 5. What if the Object Started to Speak? 6. Towards Female Subjectivity
Biography
Louise du Toit is senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch. She has published work in the fields of rape and sexual violence, legal philosophy, and ethnic identity.
