A Philosophical Investigation of Rape: The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self

By Louise Du Toit

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415536561
• ISBN13: 9780415536561
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"