Rape and Resistance

Linda Martín Alcoff is Director of Women's Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Rape after Foucault1. Global Resistance: A New Agenda for Theory2. The Thorny Question of Experience3. Norming Sexual Practices4. Sexual Subjectivity5. “Consent”, “Victim”, “Honor”6. Speaking As (with Laura Gray-Rosendale)7. The Problem of Speaking for MyselfConclusion: Standing in the IntersectionNotesReferencesIndex

"Alcoff's work is consistently insightful, clearly written, and well argued. She bravely tackles a number of contemporary challenges to feminist philosophy, including attacks on the epistemic authority of sexual assault victims, worries about making normative judgments about sex, difficulties with defining the concept of rape, and the political dangers of public discourse. ... The best book I have read in several years."Debra L. Jackson, California State University, Bakersfield“What Alcoff achieves is a deftly crafted exploration of not only how rape impacts the self, but of what constitutes ‘the self’ and how our selves are constantly in the making. She challenges us to rethink many of the concepts discussed so widely today, doing so in a deeply informed and reflective way.”Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books