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Can I read Foucault, Rape, and the Construction of the Feminine Body on EtoBox?
Foucault, Rape, and the Construction of the Feminine Body by Ann J. Cahill is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Foucault, Rape, and the Construction of the Feminine Body about?
In 1977, Michel Foucault suggested that legal approaches to rape define it as merely an act of violence, not of sexuality, and therefore not distinct from other types of assaults. I argue that rape can not be considered merely an act of violence because it is instrumental in the construction of the distinctly feminine body. Insofar as the threat of rape is ineluctably, although not determinately, associated with the development of feminine bodily comportment, rape itself holds a host of bodily and sexually specific meanings.
Who reads Foucault, Rape, and the Construction of the Feminine Body?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Social Sciences.
- Author
- Ann J. Cahill
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences