1st Edition
Sexual Violence and Humiliation A Foucauldian-Feminist Perspective
By Dianna Taylor
Copyright 2020
138 Pages
by
Routledge
138 Pages
by
Routledge
138 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book presents humiliation as a key harm of sexual violence against women, showing that humiliation manifests within the relation of self to itself, and that Foucault’s critique of subjectivity provides resources for feminist conceptualization and countering of sexual violence and humiliation. Within feminist philosophy and theory, rape and sexual assault are often described as... Read more
Introduction: How Much Does It Cost for Victims/Survivors to Tell the Truth?
Chapter One: "You Can’t Critique the Subject"
Chapter Two: Subjectivity, Sexual Violence, and Sexual Humiliation
Chapter Three: Speaking Out, Countering Sexual Humiliation, Transforming Oneself
Chapter Four: Militant Bodies
Conclusion: Gestures of Solidarity
Biography
Dianna Taylor is Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. She is co-editor of Feminism and the Final Foucault (University of Illinois Press, 2004) and Feminist Politics: Identity, Difference, Agency (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), and editor of Michel Foucault: Key Concepts (Acumen, 2010).
