Rape, claims Ann J. Cahill, affects not only those women who are
raped, but all women who experience their bodies as rapable and
adjust their actions and self-images accordingly. Rethinking Rape
counters legal and feminist definitions of rape as mere assault and
decisively emphasizes the centrality of the body and sexuality in a
crime which plays a crucial role in the continuing oppression of
women.
Rethinking Rape applies current feminist theory to an urgent
political and ethical issue. Cahill takes an original approach by
reading the subject of rape through the work of such recent
continental feminist thinkers as Luce Irigaray, Elizabeth Grosz,
Rosi Braidotti, and Judith Butler, who understand the body as fluid
and indeterminate, a site for the negotiation of power and
resistance. Cahill interprets rape as an embodied, sexually marked
experience, a violation of feminine bodily integrity, and a
pervasive threat to the integrity and identity of a woman's
person.
The wrongness of rape, which has always eluded legal
interpretation, cannot be defined as theft, battery, or the logical
extension of heterosexual sex. It is not limited to a specific
event, but encompasses the myriad ways in which rape threatens the
prospect of feminine agency. As an explication that fully
countenances women's experiences of their own bodies, Rethinking
Rape helps point the way toward reparation, resistance, and the
evolution of feminine subjectivity.
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