LEADER 04209nam 22006494a 450 001 9910821928703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-5291-8 010 $a0-585-42505-1 024 7 $a10.18574/nyu/9780814752913.001.0001 035 $a(CKB)111056486727302 035 $a(OCoLC)228042824 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10032554 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000210896 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11201914 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000210896 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10291374 035 $a(PQKB)10556562 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3025565 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3025565 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10032554 035 $a(OCoLC)923678063 035 $a(DE-B1597)651514 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814752913 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486727302 100 $a19990129d1999 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aNew versions of victims $efeminists struggle with the concept /$fedited by Sharon Lamb 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$d1999 215 $a1 online resource (230 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8147-5152-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tContributors -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter One. Heretical Texts The Courage to Heal and the Incest Survivor Movement -- $tChapter Two. The Challenge to Feminism Posed by Women?s Use of Violence in Intimate Relationships -- $tChapter Three ?I Wasn?t Raped, but . . . ? Revisiting Definitional Problems in Sexual Victimization -- $tChapter four. Recasting Consent Agency and Victimization in Adult-Teen Relationships -- $tChapter Five. Constructing the Victim: Popular Images and Lasting Labels -- $tChapter Six. In the Line of Sight at Public Eye: In Search of a Victim -- $tChapter Seven. Trauma Talk in Feminist Clinical Practice -- $tChapter Eight. Victims, Backlash, and Radical Feminist Theory (or, The Morning after They Stole Feminism?s Fire) -- $tIndex 330 $aIt 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. 606 $aWomen$xCrimes against 606 $aVictims$xPsychology 606 $aWomen$xPsychology 606 $aFeminist theory 615 0$aWomen$xCrimes against. 615 0$aVictims$xPsychology. 615 0$aWomen$xPsychology. 615 0$aFeminist theory. 676 $a362.88/082 701 $aLamb$b Sharon$0781306 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821928703321 996 $aNew versions of victims$93979049 997 $aUNINA