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NCJ Number:	182872

Title:	New Versions of Victims: Feminists Struggle With the Concept

Editor(s):	Sharon Lamb

Date Published:	1999

Page Count:	228

Sponsoring Agency:	New York University Press New York, NY 10003

Publication Number:	ISBN 0-8147-5153-9

Sale Source:	New York University Press Washington Square New York, NY 10003 United States of America

Publisher:	http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu

Type:	Issue Overview

Format:	Book (Softbound)

Language:	English

Country:	United States of America

Annotation:	This book explores ways of constructing exploitation and victimization, power and consent, relationships and identity.

Abstract:	The eight chapters in this book focus on specific areas of abuse, such as sexual abuse, domestic violence, acquaintance rape, and rape. They also focus on broader issues, such as teen-adult relationships, victims and agency, the media and the victim, therapists and backlash critics. Chapters examine the incest recovery movement and the debate over repressed and recollected memory. Others criticize approaches and content of some healing programs. One chapter discusses women’s use of violence in intimate relationships, including examples of women’s violence from cultures other than white U.S. “mainstream” culture, and the meanings women ascribe to their violence. A chapter on rape explores whether being the object of violence necessarily makes one a victim of violence and to what extent it is in women’s best interest to be called a “victim.” An examination of adult-teen relationships challenges the idea that when older men date teenage girls, the girls are necessarily passive victims. References, notes, index

Main Term(s):	Victims of Crime

Index Term(s):	Abused women; Acquaintance rape; Attitude change; Feminism; Rape; Rape research; Role perception; Sexual assault victims; Victimization; Victimology



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