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Writing in Signs in 2002, Carine Mardorossian argued that sexual violence had become a taboo subject in feminist theory. She lamented the lack of engagement of postmodern feminists with the issue of rape, leading to a turning away from "antirape politics" or its reduction to a "psychic dimension" in which "subjectivity" had become central. In this article, I revisit Mardorossian's key claims, testing their veracity against some current critical and theoretical rape scholarship. Ultimately, I agree with Mardorrosian's conclusion about the inadequacy of contemporary feminist theoretical work for grounding feminist antirape praxis, albeit for different reasons. In my argument, the failure of such scholarship to theorize sexual difference as critical not only to understanding rape culture but to what is required to oppose it leads to a circular logic that stymies a critical feminist praxis of resistance to rape. The prevention of and resistance to rape is not just about prohibitive laws that that fix a particular iteration or account of what sex or desire looks like, nor is it about the reconstitution of women's bodies as ready to fight off rape. Drawing on the work of Māori feminist scholars, I argue that feminist antirape scholarship must look beyond the act of rape as its point of departure for resistant praxis and instead orient itself around radical ontologies of sexuate being that offer an alternative to those through which rape culture currently proliferates.

"This edited collection brings together leading and emerging scholars in the important field of sexual violence scholarship. The last 10 years have witnessed an international reckoning on sexual violence, typified in the mainstream imagination by the #MeToo movement, acknowledgement of the violence of university campus life, and the overdue recognition of the enduring harms of child sexual abuse. While the state has been forced to respond through law and other political processes, at times revealing its agility and at other times its archaic investment in the past, much of the real work responding to sexual violence and abuse has taken place within communities, and in the personal responses of the individuals writing the scripts of their experiences. This volume explores the nuances of these individual experiences and considers how they are shaped and reflected by intersecting axes of power including gender, race, class, age and able-bodied status. It reflects on law and law reform in the area and suggests new modes and frames through which to explain and understand sexual violence and institutional responses to it. Debates within this contested personal and political arena do not map onto longstanding binaries of liberal and radical feminism, nor conservative and progressive politics. This interdisciplinary volume traces that murky terrain and features some of the leading international scholars writing on sexual violence in English today. This book will appeal to scholars and students across the broad disciplines of law and legal studies; criminology; gender studies; political science and sociology"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Emergence -- Introduction -- 1. Poststructuralism and Modern European Philosophy -- 2. From Marxism to Poststructuralism -- 3. From Structuralism to Poststructuralism -- Part II: Methods -- Introduction -- 4. A History of the Method: Examining Foucault's Research Methodology -- 5. Derrida, Deconstruction and Method -- 6. Écriture Féminine -- 7. Schizoanalysis: An Incomplete Project -- Part III: Themes -- Structure and Subject -- Introduction -- 8. Structure and Subject -- 9. How do we Recognise the Subject? -- 10. Foucault: The Culture of Self, Subjectivity and Truth-telling Practices -- Language and Text -- Introduction -- 11. Derrida's Language: Play, Différance and (Con)text -- 12. Hélène Cixous and the Play of Language -- 13. Luce Irigaray: An Ode to A-(Luce) -- Form and Institution -- Introduction -- 14. Photography and Poststructuralism: The Indexical and Iconic Sign System -- 15. Deleuze and the Image of Film Theory -- 16. The Museum of Now -- 17. Institutions, Semiotics and the Politics of Subjectivity -- Resistance and Limit -- Introduction -- 18. 'Here and Nowhere': Poststructuralism, Resistance and Utopia -- 19. The Powers of the Outside in Deleuze and Cixous -- 20. Politics in-between Nihilism and History -- Part IV: Trajectories -- Introduction -- 21. The Receptions of Poststructuralism -- 22. From Liberation Theory to Postcolonial Theory: The Poststructuralist Turn -- 23. The Pharmacology of Poststructuralism: An Interview with Bernard Stiegler -- Conclusion: Poststructuralism Today? -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index