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A Philosophical Investigation of Rape The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self 1st Edition

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Full Title

A Philosophical Investigation of Rape The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self 1st Edition

Author(s)

Louise du Toit

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781135854997, 9780415536561, 9780415990295, 9780203397855, 9781135855000, 9781135854959, 9781282074767

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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 rape – is embedded in the dominant western symbolic frame. Through a Hegelian and phenomenological reading of first-person accounts by rape victims, she excavates an understanding of rape that also starts to open up a way out of the denial and destruction of female sexual subjectivity.