Women and Violence: The Agency of Victims and Perpetrators

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Rape, Women’s Autonomy and Male Complicity....Pages 15-33
Women between Agency and Coercion....Pages 34-51
Prostitution and the Concept of Agency....Pages 52-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Self-Harm as Violence: When Victim and Perpetrator Are One....Pages 71-90
Autonomy, Value and Violence: Assessing Substantive Accounts of Autonomy....Pages 91-109
Female Suicide Bombers and Autonomy....Pages 110-128
Women Raping Men....Pages 129-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Andrea Dworkin’s Pornography: Men Possessing Women — A Reassessment....Pages 145-161
Violence, Techno-Transcendence and Feminism: Thinking about Agency in the Digital Age....Pages 162-177
‘Not Just Victims … But’: Toward a Critical Theory of the Victim....Pages 178-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Women’s Agency and the Fallacy of Autonomy: The Example of Rape and Sexual Consent....Pages 197-215
What Is Violence?....Pages 216-231
Ontology, Freedom and the Body That Can Birth....Pages 232-249
Back Matter....Pages 251-257