... through which weakness is constructed and inequality reinscribed rather than being a natural state of gender. By exploring the relationship between scorn, honor, rape, sexuality, narratives of remembrance, and the emergence of “public secrets” (what people remember to forget)—and how these are interwoven...

... violence of women and men during wars. The role of photographs and image making is intrinsic to these practices. Through an examination of the combing/silence surrounding male sexual violence vis-à-vis the emphasis on the rape of women in independent Bangladesh, it is argued that these racialized...

... and subordinate sexuality to its “natural” reproductive purposes within heterosexual marriage, which actually breeds more violence by effacing violence within the family. To avoid this discursive trap, the chapter offers Herbert Marcuse's concept of Eros to claim that violence against women can be rethought...

... A close reading of the impact of sexual violence on the friendship at the heart of Elena Ferrante’s popular novels. feminist literary criticism sexual violence friendship queer theory ...