Rape and social death

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چکیده

Rape that does not involve life-threatening physical violence, is committed by someone known to the victim, and reported law enforcement (called, here, commonplace rape) raises two questions: “Why didn't she fight back or run away?” say anything at time?” Recently, research on “tonic immobility,” based animal predation studies, has provided a physiological explanation for experiences of immobilization during sexual assault. The juxtaposition with assault question: How it response reserved, in animals, lethal, no-way-out scenarios present modes violation where victim report fear death extreme harm? Neither this help explain why women fail report. This philosophical exploration meaning tonic immobility helps justify life-or-death less-than-life-threatening violation, sheds light reason women's silence after accompanied deep historical meanings can be encapsulated notion “social death,” associated U.S. colonial conquest, enslavement, impoverishment. specter social haunts rape, producing life responses.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Feminist Theory

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1741-2773', '1464-7001']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001211012940