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A Philosophical Investigation of RapeThe Making and Unmaking of the Feminine SelfBy Louise du ToitSeries: Routledge Research in Gender and Society http://www.routledge-ny.com/books/A-Philosophical-Investigat…List Price: $95.00    * ISBN: 978-0-415-99029-5    * Binding: Hardback    * Published by: Routledge    * Publication Date: 04/15/2009    * Pages: 256About the BookThis 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.