rape

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is an act that temporarily destroys, denies, or destabilizes the victim's embodied subjectivity. That is, the rapist needs the destruction of the victim's identity in order to construct his being as rapist.

Beyond bodily trauma, Cahill argues that rape temporarily destroys, denies, or destabilizes the victim's embodied subjectivity. In her words: 'The rapist needs the destruction of the victim's identity in order to construct his being as rapist' (Cahill 2001: 133).

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