Review of: Louise du Toit: A Philosophical Investigation of Rape. The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self. New York u.a.: Routledge 2009.
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https://doi.org/10.14766/827Keywords:
Gewalt, Geschlecht, GenderAbstract
Louise du Toit examines the conditions and results of rape. Beginning with the continuing silence over mass sexual violence during the period of apartheid in South Africa, she turns then to the “western symbolic system” that makes rape possible as a destructive force and that allows it to become a deadly instrument extinguishing both female subjectivity and agency. A large portion of her book is devoted to a theoretically inspired debate with philosophies of the female subject, from Jacques Derrida to Luce Irigaray, using Hegelian phenomenology as a foil. Louise du Toit ends her book with practical instructions on how to suspend this symbolic order with a view to making rape more difficult or even impossible in the future.
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