Feminist philosopher Susan Brison discusses how surviving first an acquaintance rape while studying abroad and then a violent stranger rape in France shaped her theories of embodiment and the self as well as her commitment to free speech.
Show Notes
About Susan Brison
Aftermath
By Susan J. Brison
Violence and the Remaking of a Self
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691244679/aftermath
American Philosophical Association’s Studies on Feminism and Philosophy devoted its fall 2023 edition to essays about how this work transformed philosophy and our understanding of rape and trauma more generally.
https://www.apaonline.org/news/656823/APA-Studies-Fall-2023-Issue-Now-Available.htm
“Why I Spoke Out About One Rape but Stayed Silent About Another”
Time Magazine, December 1, 2014.
Brison, Susan J. 2017. “‘We Must Find Words or Burn’: Speaking Out against Disciplinary Silencing.” Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 3, (2). Article 3. doi:10.5206/fpq/2017.2.3. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/fpq/vol3/iss2/3/
MacKinnon, Catharine. 1982. “Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory.” Signs 7(3): 515-544. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3173853
“Beauvoir and Feminism” an essay accompanied by a 1976 interview with Beauvoir. The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, Claudia Card, ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 189-207
Senn, Charlene et al. 2015. “Efficacy of a Sexual Assault Resistance Program for University Women,” New England Journal of Medicine 372: 2326-35. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1411131
Linda Ramzy Ramson, Empowerment self defense
