Rape and Persuasive Definition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8105786 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith Burgess‐Jackson (0000-0002-2636-5601, corresponding author), Keith Burgess-Jackson |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 415-454 |
| Publication date | 1995-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0045-5091 • E-ISSN: 1911-0820 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00455091.1995.10717422 |
| OpenAlex | W1594271958 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 21 |
If we [women] have not stopped rape, we have redefined it, we have faced it, and we have set up the structures to deal with it for ourselves. [T]he definition of rape, which has in the past always been understood to mean the use of violence or the threat of it to force sex upon an unwilling woman, is now being broadened to include a whole range of sexual relations that have never before in all of human experience been regarded as rape. In 1989 the philosopher and self-described feminist Christina Sommers published a short essay — ‘an opinion piece,’ she called it — that was eventually developed into and published as a philosophical article. In this essay Sommers criticized ‘feminist philosophers’ (her term) for being ‘oddly unsympathetic to the women whom they claim to represent.’ Specifically, Sommers accused these philosophers of ignoring the ‘values of the average woman’ and of being caught up in an ‘ideological fervor.’ To emphasize her point that the so-called feminist philosophers have lost touch with ‘the average woman,’ Sommers wrote that ‘One must nevertheless expect that many women will continue to swoon at the sight of Rhett Butler carrying Scarlett O'Hara up the stairs to a fate undreamt of in feminist philosophy
Epistemology · Feminism · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2023 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |