ABSTRACT
Amidst all the cultural noise about ours being a “post-feminist” agea time when women have, allegedly, achieved such social and political equality so as to make feminism obsolete and unnecessary-the rates of sexual violence against women serve as a palpable reminder of women’s continued oppression.1 In an earlier work, Rethinking Rape (2001), I called for a retheorizing of this entrenched social phenomenon and argued that utilizing some conceptual tools developed by continental feminism would result in a more comprehensive, nuanced understanding of it. Specifically, I claimed that the approaches of Susan Brownmiller and Catharine MacKinnon, two of the most recognized feminist thinkers on this subject, were both flawed in their incomplete appreciation of embodied subjectivity and the complex ways in which bodies, power, individuals, and social discourses interact.
