Rape and resistance : understanding the complexities of sexual violation
By: Alcoff, Linda Marti'n
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BookPublisher: UK : Polity Press, c2018.Description: vii, 269 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780745691923Subject(s): RapeDDC classification: 362.883 AL RA Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Tough Topics | 362.883 AL RA (Browse shelf) | Available | Jan2019 | T0061136 |
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| 362.8756 MC RE Refugees : | 362.875610973 PR RE Refugees, civil society and the state : | 362.880994 CR IM Crime and safety / | 362.883 AL RA Rape and resistance : | 363.125 RO AD Road safety / | 363.192 GE NE Genetically modified food / | 364.15 VI OL Violence / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-258) and index.
1.Global Resistance: A New Agenda for Theory
2.The Thorny Question of Experience
3.Norming Sexual Practices
4.Sexual Subjectivity
5.Decolonizing Terms
6.Speaking "as" (with Laura Gray-Rosendale)
7.The Problem of Speaking for Myself.
In this powerful and original book, Linda Martin Alcoff aims to correct the misleading language of public debate about rape and sexual violence by showing how complex our experiences of sexual violation can be. Although it is survivors who have galvanized movements like #MeToo, when their words enter the public arena they can be manipulated or interpreted in a way that damages their effectiveness. Rather than assuming that all experiences of sexual violence are universal, we need to be more sensitive to the local and personal contexts who is speaking and in what circumstances that affect how activists and survivors protests will be received and understood.