"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."
-- "Adolescence"
"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"
It 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 CamillePaglia 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.
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