Sexual Violence and Humiliation by Dianna Taylor - 9781032088310

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Sexual Violence and HumiliationA Foucauldian-Feminist Perspective\nAuthor(s): Dianna Taylor\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032088310, 978-1032088310\nSynopsis\nThis 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 Foucaults critique of subjectivity provides resources for feminist conceptualization and countering of sexual violence and humiliation. \n\nWithin 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 books elucidation of possibilities for countering sexual v.