What is Sexualized Violence?

This book uses an intersectional, queer and subject-oriented approach to examine how societies constitute subjects as abilized and vulnerabilized with respect to sexualized violence.

1. Why bother with sexualized violence? Sexualized violence is social, that's why. ; 2. (Inter)subjection: constituting subjects relationally; 3. Dispositif: re/producing opportunity in the administration of pain? ; 4. Competing discourses about sexualized violence; 5. Victim_survivor subjectivity: vulnerabilization at the intersections of systems of oppression; 6. Perpetrator subjectivity: abilization at the intersections of systems of oppression; 7. A sociology of violence: violence is systemic and relational; 8. Conclusion: from the administration of pain to systemic resilience