Male Rape is a Feminist Issue [electronic resource] : Feminism, Governmentality and Male Rape /
Cohen, C.author.
This book seeks to problematize knowledge and practices regarding 'male rape' and its relationship to feminism, examining this issue from a Foucauldian perspective. Feminist constructions of 'male rape' can plausibly be claimed to operate as a 'regime of truth', but one must question whether this is running counter to patriarchy.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I: Contextualizing Chapters - Thinking Differently; 1 Introduction - Feminism, Governmentality and 'Male' Rape; 1.1 Preliminary reflections; 1.2 Overview; 2 Problematization - A Critical Ontology of the Present; 2.1 Battle over the male rape victim; 2.2 Discovery of the male rape victim; 2.3 Forgotten history of the male rape victim; 2.4 Conclusion; 3 Investigation - A Foucauldian Triangulation?; Part II: Triangulation Chapters - Deploying the (Male Rape) Subject; 4 Representations - Knowing Victimhood
4.1 The production of the 'truth' of male rape: the knowing and known subject4.2 A focus on reportage and entertainment: framing and governmentality; 4.3 Male rape is not real rape: mediated messages of difference and indifference; 4.4 Conclusion; 5 Biopolitics - Imagining Victimhood; 5.1 A focus on the 'horizon' of male rape: the imagining, thinking, reasoning subject; 5.2 A focus on fans and fandoms: the audience and governmentality; 5.3 Pretty when he's broken: slash and the eroticization of male sexual victimization; 5.4 Conclusion; 6 Individuation - Acting on Victimhood
6.1 Normativity in the 'practices' around male rape: the acting and acted upon subject6.2 A focus on policy and provision: redaction and governmentality; 6.3 All victims are not equal: the phenomenon of the invisibilized man; 6.4 Conclusion; Part III: Concluding Thoughts; 7 Feminism and Male Rape - Ironies and Governmentality; 8 Excavating the Gendered/ing Dimensions of Male Rape; 8.1 Foucauldian feminism and male rape: the tyranny of the model; 8.2 Foucauldian feminism and male rape: ambivalence and resistance
9 Epilogue - Male Rape is a Feminist Issue/Male Rape is a Feminist Issue!/Male Rape is a Feminist Issue?Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book seeks to problematize knowledge and practices regarding 'male rape' and its relationship to feminism, examining this issue from a Foucauldian perspective. Feminist constructions of 'male rape' can plausibly be claimed to operate as a 'regime of truth', but one must question whether this is running counter to patriarchy.
Crime-Sociological aspects.
Criminology.
Sociology.
Feminist theory.
Sexual behavior.
Crime and Society.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Gender Studies.
Feminism.
Sexual Behavior.