Power of definition (sexual violence)

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The power to define sexualised violence in feminist debates is the right of those affected by sexualised violence to define what sexualised violence is. The point is therefore to focus on subjective experience instead of objective criteria . That which is perceived as sexualised violence is thus also sexualised violence. On the one hand, this is intended to prevent victims from coming under pressure to justify themselves when they report on sexual violence that has been inflicted on them. On the other hand, forms of sexual violence that are not defined by law come into focus.

History of theory

The term arose from the feminist discourse of the 1970s and their criticism of an “objective concept of violence” that could not exist. Where the boundary between violence and non-violence lies can only be determined by the subject itself in connection with its options for action. What constitutes an "injury" can only be determined by the affected subject.

literature

  • Sandra Glammeier: Between embodied rule and resistance. Constructions of reality and subject positions of women affected by violence in the struggle for recognition , VS Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17706-9
  • Susan Brownmiller : Against our will. Rape and male domination . Fischer-Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt a. M., 1980, ISBN 3-596-23712-2
  • re.ACTion: Antisexism_reloaded . How to deal with sexual violence. A manual for anti-sexist practice . Münster 2007. ISBN 978-3-89771-301-7
  • Carol Hagemann-White: Strategies against violence in the gender relationship. An inventory analysis and perspectives . Pfaffenweiler, Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft 1992, ISBN 9783890857541

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christa Oppenheimer: What does the work against sexual violence have to do with feminism? ( Memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 167 kB).
  2. ↑ Carol Hagemann-White: Strategies against violence in the gender relationship. An inventory analysis and perspectives . Pfaffenweiler, Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft 1992, ISBN 9783890857541 , p. 24.