Theorizing Sexual Violence

Renée J. Heberle is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toledo in Ohio. She is the editor of Feminist Interpretations of Theodor Adorno and co-editor of Imagining Law: On Drucilla Cornell. Her essays have appeared in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Signs: A Journal of Women and Culture, Studies in Law, Politics and Society, and in the Encyclopedia of Government and Politics (Routledge, 2001). Victoria Grace is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She has published widely in social and feminist theory, the politics of scientific knowledge, embodiment and psychosomatics. She is the author of Baudrillard's Challenge. A Feminist Reading (Routledge, 2000).

Foreword. Joanna Bourke. Introduction: Theorizing Sexual Violence: Subjectivity and Politics in Late Modernity Renée J. Heberle and Victoria Grace 1. Sexual Violence and Objectification Ann J. Cahill 2. Gendered Violence and Sacrificial Logics: Psychoanalytic Reflections Victoria Grace 3. ‘Reality Check’: Rethinking the Ethics of Vulnerability Ann V. Murphy 4. Of Shards, Subjectivities, and the Refusal to ‘Heal’: Refiguring the Damage of Incest Melanie Boyd 5. Fighting Rape Nicola Gavey 6. Rethinking the Social Contract: Masochism and Masculinist Violence Renée J. Heberle 7. Feminist Interrogations of Democracy, Sexual Violence, and the U.S. Military Meghana Nayak 8. Feminism, International Law, and the Spectacular Violence of the ‘Other’: Decolonizing the Laws of War Elizabeth Philipose