Sexual violence in western thought and writing
Subtitle: chaste rape
By: by Victor J. Vitanza
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780230112834
Subjects: Literature and morals; Theory; Literature and society; Violence in literature; Philosophy; History and criticism; Literature; Communities; Difference (Philosophy) in literature; Social values in literature; Rape in literature
Other titles: Chaste rape
Description: Sexual Violence in Western Thought and Writing: Chaste Rape focuses on rape scripts and narratives as informed by a sacrificial economy that grounds subjectivity and legitimizes community. In search of tutor texts to rethink these scripts and narratives, Victor J. Vitanza turns to the works of Kate Millett as well as the works of Andrea Dworkin, Susan Brownmiller, Virginia Woolf, and Sigmund Freud. Vitanza rethinks rape through a close examination of how sexual violence is a pedagogy that has become canonized in the form of rape stories. To rethink-reread-rewrite outside this economy, Vitanza combines the work of continental feminisms with philosophies on post-identities and on radical reconsideration of a community without community. -- Publisher decription.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.