Louise Du Toit
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3635157 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Louise Du Toit |
| PRENOMES | Louise |
| SOBRENOME | Du Toit |
| ASSINATURA | DU TOIT L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4186-5812 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
White Women and Antiracism in the (Post)Colony of South Africa
Feminist scholars such as Ann Laura Stoler and María Lugones have shown how colonial patriarchy, or patriarchal coloniality, constructs and relies on a vulnerable, sexually pure, and passive white femininity in oppositional relation to a rapacious Black masculinity. This logic serves four political agendas: it racializes the colonized, secures and justifies (paternalistic) patriarchal control over white women and their reproductive sexuality, leg…
Watery Hauntings
It is no secret that philosophy was historically established as the endeavor of white men and that this history continues to underpin and inform the workings of the institutionalized discipline in contemporary university spaces. The discipline’s inherent preoccupation with the universal rather than the particular, the abstract rather than the material, has rendered philosophy particularly obtuse for certain kinds of thinking, and oblivious to lar…
The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals
Written by an international team of over sixty experts and drawing on over three thousand scientific studies, this is the first comprehensive global assessment of the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals, which were launched by the United Nations in 2015. It explores in detail the political steering effects of the Sustainable Development Goals on the UN system and the policies of countries in the Global North and Global South; on…
Reimagining international environmental law for the Anthropocene
Concerns have been raised regarding the ability of international environmental law to respond to potentially irreversible earth system transformations in the Anthropocene. We argue that in order for international environmental law to have the capacity to respond to the socio-ecological challenges of the Anthropocene, it should embrace an earth system perspective. Earth system law, which is grounded in an earth system perspective, has been propose…
Friend or foe?
In this paper, we focus on the structural complicity of international environmental law (IEL) in causing and exacerbating climate injustices. We aim to show that although the intentions behind IEL may be well-meaning, it often inadvertently, but also deliberately at times, plays a role in creating, sustaining and exacerbating the many paradigms that drive climate injustice in the Anthropocene. We focus on three aspects: IEL’s neoliberal anthropoc…
The African Animal Other
The main claim in this article is that the traditionally Western and currently dominant understandings of the figures of "Nature" and "Animal" underlie and structure different forms of oppression and should be critically confronted. The racial-sexual subjugation of the colonized African draws symbolically on the older Western symbolic subjugations of Animal and Woman. In the Great Chain of Being of Western metaphysics it is Woman's sexual body th…
Debating brain drain
In my contribution to this brain drain debate sparked by Brock and Blake’s book, Debating Brain Drain, I respond only to Brock’s position, and raise three objections which I suggest complicate the picture that she sketches. First, I take issue with the way in which she frames the moral question, namely by limiting her focus to what home countries may legitimately do to address the problems associated with the brain drain. I argue that the way in …
The South African Constitution as Memory and Promise
This article considers the South African Constitution as a living text that founds the new democratic state and asks about its politics of memory. By its very nature, a constitution looks simultaneously backwards and forwards: the promise of the constitution cannot be understood separately from its memory of the apartheid past, and vice versa. The past continuously gets rewritten and reframed as we always reinterpret it anew in light of current c…
Shifting Meanings of Postconflict Sexual Violence in South Africa
In this article, I identify four interpretive frames that have been or may be used to make sense of the high incidence of rape in contemporary postapartheid South Africa, namely, past perpetrator trauma, current socioeconomic exclusion, patriarchal politics, and ontological violence. This analysis aims to present each of these as a kind of story or narrative within which the phenomenon is framed, thus setting out a rough typology of rape interpre…
In the Name of What? Defusing the Rights-Culture Debate by Revisiting the Universals of Both Rights and Culture
This article unravels the perceived dichotomy between universal human and women's rights and apparently misogynist cultural claims and practices. It does so by mainly focusing on the ‘universal’ side of the dichotomy. In pursuing this argument, it first describes how recent feminist work has gone beyond a critique and transformation of the content of universals and suggested the transformation of both the status and structure of universals. At th…
From Consent to Coercive Circumstances
When South Africa’s rape law of 1957 was amended in 2007, consent was retained as a key element in the definition of the crime of rape, in contrast with the Law Reform Commission’s recommendation that the criterion of consent be replaced with the notion of coercive circumstances that would determine whether an act of sexual penetration should be deemed prima facie unlawful. The most salient aspect of the reformed law is its ostensible gender neut…
A Philosophical Investigation of Rape
This book offers a critical feminist perspective on the widely debated topic of transitional justice and forgiveness. Louise Du Toit examines the phenomenon of rape with a feminist philosophical discourse concerning women’s or ‘feminine’ subjectivity and selfhood. She demonstrates how the hierarchical dichotomy of male active versus female passive sexuality – which obscures the true nature of rape – is embedded in the dominant western symbolic fr…
The contradictions of consent in rape law
In this article it is argued that traditional rape law's dependence on consent as a key defining element of rape is highly problematic from a feminist viewpoint. Women's capacity to give or withhold consent as reflected in rape law rests on a liberal assumption about women's sexual agency, which is precisely what is radically undermined in rape-prone societies. Attention is thus drawn to ‘the conditions of consent’, i.e. the conditions that need …
Old wives’ tales and philosophical delusions
This article represents a response to ‘the problem of women and African philosophy’, which refers mainly to the absence of sRong women’s and feminist voices within the discipline of African philosophy. I investigate the possibility that African women are not so much excluded from the institutionalized discipline of philosophy, as preferring fiction as a genre for intellectual expression. This hypothesis can be supported by some feminists who read…
A philosophical investigation of rape
Reimagining international environmental law for the Anthropocene
Concerns have been raised regarding the ability of international environmental law to respond to potentially irreversible earth system transformations in the Anthropocene. We argue that in order for international environmental law to have the capacity to respond to the socio-ecological challenges of the Anthropocene, it should embrace an earth system perspective. Earth system law, which is grounded in an earth system perspective, has been propose…
In the Name of What? Defusing the Rights-Culture Debate by Revisiting the Universals of Both Rights and Culture
This article unravels the perceived dichotomy between universal human and women's rights and apparently misogynist cultural claims and practices. It does so by mainly focusing on the ‘universal’ side of the dichotomy. In pursuing this argument, it first describes how recent feminist work has gone beyond a critique and transformation of the content of universals and suggested the transformation of both the status and structure of universals. At th…
The African Animal Other
The main claim in this article is that the traditionally Western and currently dominant understandings of the figures of "Nature" and "Animal" underlie and structure different forms of oppression and should be critically confronted. The racial-sexual subjugation of the colonized African draws symbolically on the older Western symbolic subjugations of Animal and Woman. In the Great Chain of Being of Western metaphysics it is Woman's sexual body th…
The South African Constitution as Memory and Promise
This article considers the South African Constitution as a living text that founds the new democratic state and asks about its politics of memory. By its very nature, a constitution looks simultaneously backwards and forwards: the promise of the constitution cannot be understood separately from its memory of the apartheid past, and vice versa. The past continuously gets rewritten and reframed as we always reinterpret it anew in light of current c…
Old wives’ tales and philosophical delusions
This article represents a response to ‘the problem of women and African philosophy’, which refers mainly to the absence of sRong women’s and feminist voices within the discipline of African philosophy. I investigate the possibility that African women are not so much excluded from the institutionalized discipline of philosophy, as preferring fiction as a genre for intellectual expression. This hypothesis can be supported by some feminists who read…
The contradictions of consent in rape law
In this article it is argued that traditional rape law's dependence on consent as a key defining element of rape is highly problematic from a feminist viewpoint. Women's capacity to give or withhold consent as reflected in rape law rests on a liberal assumption about women's sexual agency, which is precisely what is radically undermined in rape-prone societies. Attention is thus drawn to ‘the conditions of consent’, i.e. the conditions that need …
Old wives’ tales and philosophical delusions
This article represents a response to ‘the problem of women and African philosophy’, which refers mainly to the absence of sRong women’s and feminist voices within the discipline of African philosophy. I investigate the possibility that African women are not so much excluded from the institutionalized discipline of philosophy, as preferring fiction as a genre for intellectual expression. This hypothesis can be supported by some feminists who read…
A philosophical investigation of rape
A Philosophical Investigation of Rape
This book offers a critical feminist perspective on the widely debated topic of transitional justice and forgiveness. Louise Du Toit examines the phenomenon of rape with a feminist philosophical discourse concerning women’s or ‘feminine’ subjectivity and selfhood. She demonstrates how the hierarchical dichotomy of male active versus female passive sexuality – which obscures the true nature of rape – is embedded in the dominant western symbolic fr…
From Consent to Coercive Circumstances
When South Africa’s rape law of 1957 was amended in 2007, consent was retained as a key element in the definition of the crime of rape, in contrast with the Law Reform Commission’s recommendation that the criterion of consent be replaced with the notion of coercive circumstances that would determine whether an act of sexual penetration should be deemed prima facie unlawful. The most salient aspect of the reformed law is its ostensible gender neut…
In the Name of What? Defusing the Rights-Culture Debate by Revisiting the Universals of Both Rights and Culture
This article unravels the perceived dichotomy between universal human and women's rights and apparently misogynist cultural claims and practices. It does so by mainly focusing on the ‘universal’ side of the dichotomy. In pursuing this argument, it first describes how recent feminist work has gone beyond a critique and transformation of the content of universals and suggested the transformation of both the status and structure of universals. At th…
Shifting Meanings of Postconflict Sexual Violence in South Africa
In this article, I identify four interpretive frames that have been or may be used to make sense of the high incidence of rape in contemporary postapartheid South Africa, namely, past perpetrator trauma, current socioeconomic exclusion, patriarchal politics, and ontological violence. This analysis aims to present each of these as a kind of story or narrative within which the phenomenon is framed, thus setting out a rough typology of rape interpre…
The South African Constitution as Memory and Promise
This article considers the South African Constitution as a living text that founds the new democratic state and asks about its politics of memory. By its very nature, a constitution looks simultaneously backwards and forwards: the promise of the constitution cannot be understood separately from its memory of the apartheid past, and vice versa. The past continuously gets rewritten and reframed as we always reinterpret it anew in light of current c…
Debating brain drain
In my contribution to this brain drain debate sparked by Brock and Blake’s book, Debating Brain Drain, I respond only to Brock’s position, and raise three objections which I suggest complicate the picture that she sketches. First, I take issue with the way in which she frames the moral question, namely by limiting her focus to what home countries may legitimately do to address the problems associated with the brain drain. I argue that the way in …
The African Animal Other
The main claim in this article is that the traditionally Western and currently dominant understandings of the figures of "Nature" and "Animal" underlie and structure different forms of oppression and should be critically confronted. The racial-sexual subjugation of the colonized African draws symbolically on the older Western symbolic subjugations of Animal and Woman. In the Great Chain of Being of Western metaphysics it is Woman's sexual body th…
Friend or foe?
In this paper, we focus on the structural complicity of international environmental law (IEL) in causing and exacerbating climate injustices. We aim to show that although the intentions behind IEL may be well-meaning, it often inadvertently, but also deliberately at times, plays a role in creating, sustaining and exacerbating the many paradigms that drive climate injustice in the Anthropocene. We focus on three aspects: IEL’s neoliberal anthropoc…
The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals
Written by an international team of over sixty experts and drawing on over three thousand scientific studies, this is the first comprehensive global assessment of the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals, which were launched by the United Nations in 2015. It explores in detail the political steering effects of the Sustainable Development Goals on the UN system and the policies of countries in the Global North and Global South; on…
Reimagining international environmental law for the Anthropocene
Concerns have been raised regarding the ability of international environmental law to respond to potentially irreversible earth system transformations in the Anthropocene. We argue that in order for international environmental law to have the capacity to respond to the socio-ecological challenges of the Anthropocene, it should embrace an earth system perspective. Earth system law, which is grounded in an earth system perspective, has been propose…
Watery Hauntings
It is no secret that philosophy was historically established as the endeavor of white men and that this history continues to underpin and inform the workings of the institutionalized discipline in contemporary university spaces. The discipline’s inherent preoccupation with the universal rather than the particular, the abstract rather than the material, has rendered philosophy particularly obtuse for certain kinds of thinking, and oblivious to lar…
White Women and Antiracism in the (Post)Colony of South Africa
Feminist scholars such as Ann Laura Stoler and María Lugones have shown how colonial patriarchy, or patriarchal coloniality, constructs and relies on a vulnerable, sexually pure, and passive white femininity in oppositional relation to a rapacious Black masculinity. This logic serves four political agendas: it racializes the colonized, secures and justifies (paternalistic) patriarchal control over white women and their reproductive sexuality, leg…
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