Shearer-Cremean, Christine. <br/><br/>
Survivor Rhetoric :  Negotiations and Narrativity in Abused Women's Language. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (250 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442684836 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Abused women-Language.<br/>Abused women-Public opinion.<br/>Sexual abuse victims-Language.<br/>Narrative therapy.<br/>Sociolinguistics.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV6626 .S878 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.88083