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Survivor rhetoric [electronic resource] : negotiations and narrativity in abused women's language / edited by Christine Shearer-Cremean and Carol L. Winkelmann.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2004.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 241 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781442684836 (electronic bk.)
  • 1442684836 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Survivor rhetoric.DDC classification:
  • 362.88/083 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6626 .S87 2004eb
Other classification:
  • 71.33
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Christine Shearer-Cremean and Carol L. Winkelman -- Narrative, gender, and recovery from childhood sexual abuse / Elana Newman -- Speaking in contradictions : complex agency of battered women who kill / Carrie N. Baker -- A survivor within a culture of survivors : untangling the language of sexual abuse in oral history narrative collected in a politically violent situation / Batya Weinbaum -- Exploring discursive constructions of lesbian abuse : looking inside and out / Cindy Holmes and Janice L. Ristock -- Shattered dreams : a material rhyetorical reading of Charlotte Fedders's memoir of domestic abuse / Cathy A. Colton -- When the daughter tells her story : the rhetorical challenges disclosing father-daughter incest / Brenda Daly -- The epistemology of police science and the silencing of battered women / Christine Shearer-Cremean -- The language of healing : Generic structure, hybridization, and meaning shifts in the recovery of battered women / Carol L. Winkelmann -- Conclusion / Christine Shearer-Cremean and Carol L. Winkelmann.
Review: "Survivor Rhetoric is a collection of original essays that discuss the language of abused women and girls. Written by feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, including literary studies, psychology, law, and criminal justice, the essays examine narratives from diverse sources, including American evangelicals, survivors of child sexual abuse, battered women who have killed their abusive partners, and elite or highly educated women represented in the mainstream media."--Jacket.
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Introduction / Christine Shearer-Cremean and Carol L. Winkelman -- Narrative, gender, and recovery from childhood sexual abuse / Elana Newman -- Speaking in contradictions : complex agency of battered women who kill / Carrie N. Baker -- A survivor within a culture of survivors : untangling the language of sexual abuse in oral history narrative collected in a politically violent situation / Batya Weinbaum -- Exploring discursive constructions of lesbian abuse : looking inside and out / Cindy Holmes and Janice L. Ristock -- Shattered dreams : a material rhyetorical reading of Charlotte Fedders's memoir of domestic abuse / Cathy A. Colton -- When the daughter tells her story : the rhetorical challenges disclosing father-daughter incest / Brenda Daly -- The epistemology of police science and the silencing of battered women / Christine Shearer-Cremean -- The language of healing : Generic structure, hybridization, and meaning shifts in the recovery of battered women / Carol L. Winkelmann -- Conclusion / Christine Shearer-Cremean and Carol L. Winkelmann.

"Survivor Rhetoric is a collection of original essays that discuss the language of abused women and girls. Written by feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, including literary studies, psychology, law, and criminal justice, the essays examine narratives from diverse sources, including American evangelicals, survivors of child sexual abuse, battered women who have killed their abusive partners, and elite or highly educated women represented in the mainstream media."--Jacket.

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