Dianna Taylor, Sexual Violence and Humiliation: A Foucauldian-Feminist Perspective (Interdisciplinary Research in Gender). London and New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 128.

ISBN: 978-1-138-58143-2 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-429-50542-3 (e-book).

Authors

  • Sara Cohen Shabot University of Haifa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.vi31.6468

Author Biography

Sara Cohen Shabot, University of Haifa

Sara Cohen Shabot is Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of Haifa. She has a PhD in philosophy and has specialized in phenomenology, feminist philosophy, and philosophies of the body. Her present research and publications address feminist philosophical perspectives on childbirth and the maternal embodied subject. She is the co-editor of Rethinking Feminist Phenomenology: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives, Rowman & Littlefield (2018). She has published several papers on feminist phenomenology, for instance on Beauvoir’s concept of freedom and the erotic body in Feminist Theory (2016); on the phenomenology of childbirth pain in the European Journal of Women's Studies (2015); and on obstetric violence as gender violence in Human Studies (2016, 2021), Hypatia (2018), Feminist Theory (2020), and the European Journal of Women's Studies (2020).

References

Beauvoir, Simone de. The Ethics of Ambiguity. New York: Philosophical Library, 1948.

Cohen Shabot, Sara, "Dogville or the Ambiguity of Oppression — A Beauvoirian Reading," Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 26:3 (2015), 142–164. https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-3340408

Fennell, Emerald, dir. Promising Young Woman. FilmNation Entertainment, Focus Features and LuckyChap Entertainment, 2020.

Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra, Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study. Jefferson: McFarland, 2011.

Kruks, Sonia, Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Von Trier, Lars, dir. Dogville. Canal+ and France 3 Cinéma, 2003.

Downloads

Published

2021-12-12

How to Cite

Cohen Shabot, S. (2021). Dianna Taylor, Sexual Violence and Humiliation: A Foucauldian-Feminist Perspective (Interdisciplinary Research in Gender). London and New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 128.: ISBN: 978-1-138-58143-2 (hardback). ISBN: 978-0-429-50542-3 (e-book). Foucault Studies, (31), 232–237. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.vi31.6468

Issue

Section

Book Reviews