New versions of victims : feminists struggle with the concept / edited by Sharon Lamb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lamb, Sharon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Crimes against.

Women.

Victims--Psychology.

Victims.

Women--Psychology.

Feminist theory.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 1999.

New York, NY : New York University Press, [1999]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation It is increasingly difficult to use the word "victim" these days without facing either ridicule for "crying victim" or criticism for supposed harshness toward those traumatized. Some deny the possibility of "recovering" repressed memories of abuse, or consider date rape an invention of whining college students. At the opposite extreme, others contend that women who experience abuse are "survivors" likely destined to be psychically wounded for life. While the debates rage between victims' rights advocates and "backlash" authors, the contributors to New Versions of Victims collectively argue that we must move beyond these polarizations to examine the "victim" as a socially constructed term and to explore, in nuanced terms, why we see victims the way we do. Must one have been subject to extreme or prolonged suffering to merit designation as a victim? How are we to explain rape victims who seemingly "get over" their experience with no lingering emotional scars? Resisting the reductive oversimplifications of the polemicists, the contributors to New Versions of Victims critique exaggerated claims by victim advocates about the harm of victimization while simultaneously taking on the reactionary boilerplate of writers such as Katie Roiphe and Camille Paglia and offering further strategies for countering the backlash. Written in clear, accessible language, New Versions of Victims offers a critical analysis of popular debates about victimization that will be applicable to both practice and theory.

Contents:

""New Versions of Victims""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: Heretical Texts""; ""Chapter 2: The Challenge to Feminism Posed by Women's Use of Violence in Intimate Relationships""; ""Chapter 3: â€oeI Wasnâ€?t Raped, but ... â€?""; ""Chapter 4: Recasting Consent""; ""Chapter 5: Constructing the Victim""; ""Chapter 6: In the Line of Sight at Public Eye""; ""Chapter 7: Trauma Talk in Feminist Clinical Practice""; ""Chapter 8: Victims, Backlash, and Radical Feminist Theory""; ""Index""

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)

ISBN:

9780814752913

0814752918

9780585425054

0585425051

OCLC:

228042824

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access