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This paper considers Linda Martín Alcoff’s discussion of sexual agency and sexual violation in Rape and Resistance. It is argued that Alcoff’s move away from ‘sexual violence’ to ‘sexual violation’ to address the harms of rape and rape culture is significant with regard to conceiving of a feminist sexual ethic more generally and to understanding the harm of rape and sexual assault in particular. More specifically, this paper focuses on Alcoff’s norm of self-making and considers the way it can interrupt racialized heterosexist sex and sexuality and normative feminine subjectivity vis-à-vis temporality.
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Burke, M. Survivor experience and the norm of self-making: comments on Rape and Resistance. Philos Stud 177, 297–302 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-019-01391-0
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