{"product_id":"new-versions-of-victims-feminists-struggle-with-the-concept-paperback-softback-9780814751534","title":"New Versions of Victims; Feminists Struggle with the Concept (Paperback \/ softback) 9780814751534","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNew Versions of Victims\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFeminists Struggle with the Concept\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSharon Lamb (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780814751534\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 June 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.286 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Written in clear, accessible language...\u003cb\u003eNew Versions of Victims\u003c\/b\u003e offers a critical analysis of popular debates about victimization that will be applicable to both practice and theory.\" (Adolescence) \"Challenges feminists, the therapy community and the academic community to think about the meanings of abuse to the abused and to the culture at large. . . . A valuable contribution to feminist discourse\" (Journal of Moral Education) \"\u003cb\u003eNew Versions of Victims: Feminists Struggle with the Concept\u003c\/b\u003e contribute[s] to the project of moving feminist theory and practice beyond reliance, implicit or explicit, on the abstract dualisms of liberal thinking.\" (Hypatia) \"Timely contribution to the theorization of rape and helps delineate areas in need of further analysis. [Lamb] also address[es] the issue from radically different perspectives and methodologies...particularly noteworthy.\" (SIGNS)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003cbr\u003e  While the debates rage between victims' rights advocates and \"backlash\" authors, the contributors to \u003cb\u003eNew Versions of Victims\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  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 \u003cb\u003eNew Versions of Victims\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  Written in clear, accessible language, \u003cb\u003eNew Versions of Victims\u003c\/b\u003e offers a critical analysis of popular debates about victimization that will be applicable to both practice and theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52740240638232,"sku":"9780814751534","price":23.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/new-versions-of-victims-feminists-struggle-with-the-concept-paperback-softback-9780814751534","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}