Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 2015 Surviving History of Sexuality: A Feminist-Foucauldian Approach to Sexual Violence and Survival Merritt Rehn-Debraal Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss Part of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons Recommended Citation Rehn-Debraal, Merritt, "Surviving History of Sexuality: A Feminist-Foucauldian Approach to Sexual Violence and Survival" (2015). Dissertations. 1967. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/1967 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 2015 Merritt Rehn-Debraal LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO SURVIVING HISTORY OF SEXUALITY: A FEMINIST-FOUCAULDIAN APPROACH TO SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND SURVIVAL A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM IN PHILOSOPHY BY MERRITT REHN-DEBRAAL CHICAGO, IL DECEMBER 2015 Copyright by Merritt Rehn-DeBraal, 2015 All rights reserved. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For his breadth of knowledge, insights, and careful readings I am grateful to my dissertation director, Andrew Cutrofello. Many thanks also to my other readers: Jacqueline Scott, who has undoubtedly helped me to become a better writer and philosopher; and Hanne Jacobs, whose enthusiasm renews my excitement in my own research. I am additionally appreciative of Hugh Miller and Jennifer Parks for raising questions at my proposal defense that helped to make my final project stronger.