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The world is peopled by victims; everyone has a story. However,
victimhood is just the beginning of the story. This book is about
the endings of at least some of those stories, the stories of
victims who strive to overcome and even triumph in the end. This
book is a collection of research perspectives and personal stories
exploring the various pathways for overcoming victimhood. It is
hoped that they might offer an inspiration for others and encourage
others to stay on the path to find a positive ending. Victim
Victorious is an examination of the ways in which victims come to
rise above the challenges that they face. Victims may be innocent
bystanders, and in no way responsible for their victimhood.
Nonetheless, they can -- and indeed we argue need to -- take
responsibility for finding a personal solution. To assist in this
task, this book chronicles the pathway of prejudice and how the
pain and the damage experienced by individual victims may be
overcome by effort, by and on their own behalf. The first half of
the book features outsider views of victimhood. A range of
professionals, philosophers, psychologists, criminologists and
critical theorists offer their thoughts on how people might
overcome victimhood. The second half of the book features insider
views of victimhood; in this section, the victims speak for
themselves about their experience and how they have endeavoured to
break through their victimhood. This book is less about identifying
and proscribing the behaviours of perpetrators and more about the
efforts that victims can undertake to heal themselves as they
journey towards resilience and victory.
THE OTHER GLASS CEILING offers an insightful male perspective to a
debate on the lack of work-family balance in modern day families.
Based on research and full of entertaining anecdotes, this book
challenges the predominant gender roles that expect a mother to
care for her family and doubt her commitment to a career, while at
the same time requiring a father to provide for his family
financially and doubting his ability to look after his own
children. This is the other glass ceiling -- the one reflected in
gender inequity in the family home and preventing equality in
parenting. The book is perpetuated by both genders equally, and the
solution requires compromises from both sides. Charles Areni and
Stephen Holder encourage dads to 'step up', to take on a bigger
share of the burden of home duties. They encourage mums to 'let
go', to let dad get involved in child-rearing, and to bring to the
task his own skills and approaches. Breaking through the other
glass ceiling will be good for mum, good for dad - oh, and good for
the children too! "This book is an important contribution to our
understanding of modern-day families in that it explores a topic
that is pervasive in society: the lack of work-family balance." --
Rosina McAlpine, Author of "Inspired Children"
The world is peopled by victims; everyone has a story. However,
victimhood is just the beginning of the story. This book is about
the endings of at least some of those stories, the stories of
victims who strive to overcome and even triumph in the end. This
book is a collection of research perspectives and personal stories
exploring the various pathways for overcoming victimhood. It is
hoped that they might offer an inspiration for others and encourage
others to stay on the path to find a positive ending. Victim
Victorious is an examination of the ways in which victims come to
rise above the challenges that they face. Victims may be innocent
bystanders, and in no way responsible for their victimhood.
Nonetheless, they can -- and indeed we argue need to -- take
responsibility for finding a personal solution. To assist in this
task, this book chronicles the pathway of prejudice and how the
pain and the damage experienced by individual victims may be
overcome by effort, by and on their own behalf. The first half of
the book features outsider views of victimhood. A range of
professionals, philosophers, psychologists, criminologists and
critical theorists offer their thoughts on how people might
overcome victimhood. The second half of the book features insider
views of victimhood; in this section, the victims speak for
themselves about their experience and how they have endeavoured to
break through their victimhood. This book is less about identifying
and proscribing the behaviours of perpetrators and more about the
efforts that victims can undertake to heal themselves as they
journey towards resilience and victory.
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