What Is Sexualized Violence? - Intersectional Readings

This book uses an intersectional, queer and subject-oriented approach to examine how societies constitute subjects as abilized and vulnerabilized with respect to sexualized violence.

List of contents

1. Why bother with sexualized violence? Sexualized violence is social, that's why.; 2. (Inter)subjection: constituting subjects relationally; 3. Dispositif: re/producing opportunity in the administration of pain?; 4. Competing discourses about sexualized violence; 5. Victim_survivor subjectivity: vulnerabilization at the intersections of systems of oppression; 6. Perpetrator subjectivity: abilization at the intersections of systems of oppression; 7. A sociology of violence: violence is systemic and relational; 8. Conclusion: from the administration of pain to systemic resilience

About the author

Jana Schäfer is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany. Her research interests include gender and queer studies, intersectionality, migration and mobility, post- and de-colonial theory, sociological theory, and the sociology of violence.

Product details

• Authors: Jana (Brandenburgische Technische Univers Schafer, Jana Schäfer
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032621227
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3262122-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls