Open AccessFeminism, Foucault, and Rape: A Theory and Politics of Rape Prevention
Author(s) -
Holly Henderson
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
berkeley journal of gender, law and justice
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.15779/z38m90226m
Subject(s) - feminism , politics , sociology , gender studies , feminist theory , criminology , political science , law
Why isn't rape the same as a punch in the face? In October 1977, the Parisbased Change Collective published a volume entitled "Lafolie encerclee."' In it is reprinted a series of debates on themes related to repression. It was in one of these roundtable discussions that French philosopher Michel Foucault asked this very question, arguing that the crime of rape should be punished as a form of physical violence "and nothing but."2 He argued for the decriminalization of rape as a sexual crime:
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