A Philosophical Investigation of Rape – Louise Du Toit

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Book Description

This book offers a critical feminist perspective on the widely debated topic of transitional justice and forgiveness. Louise Du Toit examines the phenomenon of rape with a feminist philosophical discourse concerning women’s or ‘feminine’ subjectivity and selfhood. She demonstrates how the hierarchical dichotomy of male active versus female passive sexuality – which obscures the true nature of rape – is embedded in the dominant western symbolic frame. Through a Hegelian and phenomenological reading of first-person accounts by rape victims, she excavates an understanding of rape that also starts to open up a way out of the denial and destruction of female sexual subjectivity.

Table of Contents

Introduction. 

• 1. Rape, Forgiveness and Reconciliation
• 2. The Impossibility of Rape 
• 3. The Possibility of Rape
• 4. Enigmatic Woman Facilitates Man’s Becoming
• 5. What if the Object Started to Speak? 
• 6. Towards Female Subjectivity