ABSTRACT
This chapter examines counter-discourses for sexuality and gender, and refines new possibilities for thinking about gender, sexuality, and violence. Key to surfacing the conditions is gender performativity because in the context of a confessional interview, gender, sexuality, and power can be performed in unusual ways. Whilst the aim of the text is not to provide a theoretical framework for understanding the psychological, biological, cognitive, or behavioural characteristics of female-perpetrated sex abuse (FSA), the very act of surfacing the victims produces the adjunct possibility for the theories to arise. Specifically, the implication is that the production of a sexually violent woman aligns with dominant gender discourses that insinuate the corruptive potential of sexually agentic women. In the context of contemporary narratives on women's sexualities, feminist responses to the text may be concerned with the potentially antifeminist consequences of FSA reification.
