Sexual Violence and Humiliation: A Foucauldian-Feminist Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781032088310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 138 str.

Dianna Taylor

Opis

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 or countering of sexual violence and humiliation.

Spis treści

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

　

O autorze

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).