Knowing victims : (Record no. 8461)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781315880129
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Original cataloging agency AFVC
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Personal name Stringer, Rebecca
9 (RLIN) 12467
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Title Knowing victims :
Remainder of title feminism, agency and victim politics in neoliberal times
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Routledge,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2014
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Extent electronic document (185 page)
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Summary, etc Knowing Victims explores the theme of victimhood in contemporary feminism and politics. It focuses on popular and scholarly constructions of feminism as ‘victim feminism’ – an ideology of passive victimhood that denies women’s agency – and provides the first comprehensive analysis of the debate about this ideology which has unfolded among feminists since the 1980s.<br/><br/>The book critically examines a movement away from the language of victimhood across a wide array of discourses, and the neoliberal replacement of the concept of structural oppression with the concept of personal responsibility. In derogating the notion of ‘victim,’ neoliberalism promotes a conception of victimization as subjective rather than social, a state of mind, rather than a worldly situation.<br/><br/>Drawing upon Nietzsche, Lyotard, rape crisis feminism and feminist philosophy, Stringer situates feminist politicizations of rape, interpersonal violence, economic inequality and welfare reform as key sites of resistance to the victim-blaming logic of neoliberalism. She suggests that although recent feminist critiques of ‘victim feminism’ have critically diagnosed the anti-victim movement, they have not positively defended victim politics. Stringer argues that a conception of the victim as an agentic bearer of knowledge, and an understanding of resentment as a generative force for social change, provides a potent counter to the negative construction of victimhood characteristic of the neoliberal era.<br/><br/>This accessible and insightful analysis of feminism, neoliberalism and the social construction of victimhood will be of great interest to researchers and students in the disciplines of gender and women’s studies, psychology, sociology, politics and philosophy. (Author's abstract). Record 8461<br/>
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element ATTITUDES
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element FEMINISM
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element POLITICS
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element SEXUAL VIOLENCE
9 (RLIN) 531
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element VICTIMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE
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651 #4 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name NEW ZEALAND
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315880129">https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315880129</a>
Public note DOI: 10.4324/9781315880129
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://www.wsanz.org.nz/journal/docs/WSJNZ292bookreviewKeene75-77.pdf">https://www.wsanz.org.nz/journal/docs/WSJNZ292bookreviewKeene75-77.pdf</a>
Public note Read book review in WSANZ (Open access)
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