Friday, 5/17/2024, 3:30 – 5 p.m. PDT
Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural IndiaLecture from Rupal Oza (Hunter College)
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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…