Victims, gender, and jouissance / Victoria Grace.

Victimization has a long, cross-cultural history. The status of the victim has been the source of active and stirring controversy in cultural theory, criminology and legal theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis; it is of particular interest within feminist theory. Can the victim relation be refused?...

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Main Author: Grace, Victoria
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:Routledge research in gender and society ; 32.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Feminism and the victim
  • The birth and death of the victim
  • Gender and sacrificial violence
  • From mysticism to de Sade
  • There are no victims
  • We are all victims
  • Victims, gender, and jouissance
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.