Survivor Rhetoric : Negotiations and Narrativity in Abused Women's Language.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781442684836
- 362.88083
- HV6626 .S878 2004
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Narrative, Gender, and Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse -- 2 Speaking in Contradictions: Complex Agency of Battered Women Who Kill -- 3 A Survivor within a Culture of Survivors: Untangling the Language of Sexual Abuse in Oral History Narrative Collected in a Politically Violent Situation -- 4 Exploring Discursive Constructions of Lesbian Abuse: Looking Inside and Out -- 5 Shattered Dreams: A Material Rhetorical Reading of Charlotte Fedders's Memoir of Domestic Abuse -- 6 When the Daughter Tells Her Story: The Rhetorical Challenges of Disclosing Father-Daughter Incest -- 7 The Epistemology of Police Science and the Silencing of Battered Women -- 8 The Language of Healing: Generic Structure, Hybridization, and Meaning Shifts in the Recovery of Battered Women -- Conclusion: CHRISTINE SHEARER-CREMEAN AND CAROL L. WINKELMANN -- Contributors.
Survivor Rhetoricconcludes with a call for more holistic and local responses to the problem of violence against women and girl children - responses carefully attentive to language issues, informed by multiple perspectives, and in touch with global conversations.
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