Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India

by Rupal Oza

Book Overview

In Semiotics of Rape, Rupal Oza follows the social life of rape in rural northwest India to reveal how rape is not only a violation of the body but a language through which a range of issues--including caste and gender hierarchies, control over land and labor, and the shape of justice--are contested. Rather than focus on the laws governing rape, Oza closely examines rape charges to show how the victims and survivors of rape reclaim their autonomy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478019344
• ISBN13: 9781478019343
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"