Sentence:  For a start, it feminizes Tarquin by drawing on the conventional gendering of the human soul as female (Donne's 'Batter my heart . . .' offers an obvious but interesting comparison), and implies that his physical assault on Lucrece has both offended against his own body and contaminated, almost violated, his spiritual and 'female' self. Rape has almost been <WSD>self-rape</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An act of rape where the rapist identifies with or is the same as the victim.