Rupal Oza, "Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India" (Duke UP, 2022)
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The Politics of Method: A Guide to Finding Cases of Rape
The use of rape or sexual violence extends into the land, disputes or other personal disputes in these cultures as well so I was wondering if you could speak a little bit about the challenges of conducting this kind of research. As somebody who is dominant caste and class and also lives in in the US I was very concerned about the way in which my class and caste position not reharm and re-traumatize women that I was talking with or and or their families. So I talk about this in the book in the introduction chapter which is about the politics of method and here I am careful to point out that it's not easy to find cases of rape obviously right.
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