TY - BOOK AU - Shearer-Cremean,Christine AU - Winkelmann,Carol L. TI - Survivor Rhetoric: Negotiations and Narrativity in Abused Women's Language SN - 9781442684836 AV - HV6626 .S878 2004 U1 - 362.88083 PY - 2005/// CY - Toronto PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Abused women-Language KW - Abused women-Public opinion KW - Sexual abuse victims-Language KW - Narrative therapy KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4672362 ER -