Rape and Resistance: Understanding the Complexities of Sexual Violation PDF
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Rape and Resistance to those who know Rape and Resistance Understanding the Complexities of Sexual Violation Linda Martín Alcoff polity Copyright © Linda Martín Alcoff 2018 The right of Linda Martín Alcoff to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2018 by Polity Press Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 101 Station Landing Suite 300 Medford, MA 02155, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-9191-6 ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-9192-3 (pb) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Typeset in 11.25 on 13 pt Dante by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been inadvertently overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com Contents Acknowledgments vi Introduction: Rape after Foucault 1 1 Global Resistance: A New Agenda for Theory 23 2 The Thorny Question of Experience 56 3 Norming Sexual Practices 76 4 Sexual Subjectivity 110 5 Decolonizing Terms 148 6 Speaking “as” (with Laura Gray-Rosendale) 176 7 The Problem of Speaking for Myself 203 Conclusion: Standing in the Intersection 227 Notes 241 References 244 Index 259 v Acknowledgments I have been fortunate to participate in numerous support groups for sur- vivors over the years, in Providence, Kalamazoo, and Syracuse. Some of these were organized formally by social service organizations and some simply by activists. Here I was able to witness as well as take part in the collective and tentative process of developing an understanding. The mem- ories of our many conversations have stayed with me for years. I have given portions of the arguments of this book at numerous conferences, colleges, and universities, in several countries around the world, always with private conversations afterward with members of the audience. I want to express my thanks to all of those who have shared their stories and their analyses with me. I have also discussed these topics with numerous colleagues and friends over the years to my great benefit, including especially Ann Cahill, Laura Gray-Rosendale, Raja Halwani, Jamie Lindsay, Ingeborg Majer-O’Sickey, Sarah Clark Miller, Robert Praeger, and Steven Seidman. Finally, I owe a special debt to the following people: to my family for their million acts of support and kindness; to Laura Gray-Rosendale for venturing to collaborate on this difficult topic with me many years ago; and to Amber Chiacchieri for working incredibly hard as my research assistant and also giving me sound feedback on many theoretical points. I want to also thank Sarah Gokhale for preparing the excellent index, and Sam Alcoff and Anna Gold for their helpful ideas for the cover design. Text Acknowledgments Chapter 2, “The Thorny Question of Experience,” is largely based on the essay “Sexual Violations and the Question of Experience.” Copyright © New Literary History, The University of Virginia. This article first appeared in New Literary History Volume 45, Issue 3 (Summer 2014), pages 445–62. Chapter 3, “Norming Sexual Practices,” draws in part from “Dangerous vi Acknowledgments vii Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Pedophilia,” in Feminist Interpreta- tions of Michel Foucault, edited by Susan J. Hekman (University Park: Penn- sylvania University Press, 1996), pages 99–136. Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University. Chapter 5, “Decolonizing Terms,” is largely based on “Discourses of Sexual Violence in a Global Framework. Copy- right © Philosophical Topics. This article first appeared in Philosophical Topics Volume 37, Issue 2 (Fall 2009), pages 123–40. A much earlier version of Chapter 6, “Speaking ‘as’,” appeared, co-authored with Laura Gray (now Laura Gray-Rosendale), as “Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recu- peration?” Copyright © SIGNS. This article first appeared in SIGNS Volume 18, Issue 2 (Winter 1993), pages 260–90.
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