Research Catalog

Title

Sexual violence and humiliation : a Foucauldian-feminist perspective / Dianna Taylor.

Author

Taylor, Dianna

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Description

x, 128 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"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. Within feminist philosophy and theory, rape and sexual assault are often described as humiliating to victims, yet relatively few in-depth feminist philosophical accounts and analyses exist of humiliation as a harm of sexual violence against women. This book provides such an account and analysis of both humiliation generally and sexual humiliation resulting from sexual violence more specifically. The book's elucidation of possibilities for countering sexual violence and humiliation, moreover, breaks with standard feminist approaches by critiquing rather than appealing to subjectivity. Through analysing specific instances of anti-sexual violence protest, it shows that cultivation of alternative modes of self-relation furthers rather than undermines feminist efforts to combat sexual violence. Throughout, the book draws upon concrete, recent and contemporary instance of sexual violence against women and feminist anti-sexual violence protest to illustrate and support its arguments. This will become a key text for feminist scholars and Foucault scholars in the humanities and social sciences, and for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. It will also be of interest to feminist anti-sexual violence activists"--

Series Statement

Interdisciplinary research in gender

Uniform Title

Interdisciplinary research in gender.

Subjects

• Sexual abuse victims > Psychology
• Humiliation
• Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
• Sex crimes
• Feminist theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 20-2858

ISBN

• 9781138581432
• 1138581437
• 9780429505423 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019028259

OCLC

1108804933

Author

Taylor, Dianna, author.

Title

Sexual violence and humiliation : a Foucauldian-feminist perspective / Dianna Taylor.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Interdisciplinary research in gender

Interdisciplinary research in gender.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Taylor, Dianna, 1963- Sexual violence and humiliation Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. 9780429505423 (DLC) 2019028260

Research Call Number

JFE 20-2858