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Rape, claims Ann J. Cahill, affects not only those women who are raped, but all women who experience their bodies as rapable and adjust their actions and self-images accordingly. Rethinking Rape counters legal and feminist definitions of rape as mere assault and decisively emphasizes the centrality of the body and sexuality in a crime which plays a crucial role in the continuing oppression of women. Rethinking Rape applies current feminist theory to an urgent political and ethical issue. Cahill takes an original approach by reading the subject of rape through the work of such recent continental feminist thinkers as Luce Irigaray, Elizabeth Grosz, Rosi Braidotti, and Judith Butler, who understand the body as fluid and indeterminate, a site for the negotiation of power and resistance. Cahill interprets rape as an embodied, sexually marked experience, a violation of feminine bodily integrity, and a pervasive threat to the integrity and identity of a woman's person. The wrongness of rape, which has always eluded legal interpretation, cannot be defined as theft, battery, or the logical extension of heterosexual sex. It is not limited to a specific event, but encompasses the myriad ways in which rape threatens the prospect of feminine agency. As an explication that fully countenances women's experiences of their own bodies, Rethinking Rape helps point the way toward reparation, resistance, and the evolution of feminine subjectivity. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Cahill builds her theory of rape on the sexual-difference feminism of Luce Irigaray. I have not read Irigaray myself, so I cannot evaluate Cahill's use of her theory. Irigaray via Cahill argues that sexual difference is fundamental to humanity, and that understanding that difference enables us to understand, and celebrate, other forms of difference. This sexual difference should not be understood as patriarchal biologism, nor should it be defined by any of the characteristics that are in any given context associated with women. While it's clearly related to the female body and in particular genitalia, but beyond that I am unclear as to how the significance of sexual difference should be used.
Cahill argues that understanding embodiment is essential to understanding subjectivity. She rejects the liberal enlightenment model that defines personhood by a capacity for rationality that rests on a mind/body duality. Instead, she argues that embodiment leads to an intersubjectivity in which the self is defined through its relationality and dependence on others. This leads her to argue that rape is best understood as sexually specific violent assault on a woman's subjectivity.
She rests this argument on the idea that because one's personhood is tied to one's body, an assault on one's body is inherently an attack on one's personhood. However, she does not adequately explain why a sexual assault is more of an attack on personhodd than other forms of attack. ( )