{"product_id":"new-versions-of-victims-feminists-struggle-with-the-concept-9780814751534","title":"New Versions of Victims: Feminists Struggle with the Concept","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003cbr\u003e While the debates rage between victims' rights advocates and backlash authors, the contributors to \u003cb\u003eNew Versions of Victims\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003cb\u003eNew Versions of Victims\u003c\/b\u003e 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 Camille Paglia and offering further strategies for countering the backlash.\u003cbr\u003e Written in clear, accessible language, \u003cb\u003eNew Versions of Victims\u003c\/b\u003e offers a critical analysis of popular debates about victimization that will be applicable to both practice and theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sharon Lamb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.05h x 6.07w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814751534\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLamb, Sharon:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eSharon Lamb\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Psychology at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Trouble With Blame: Victims, Perpetrators, and Responsibility.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40465512366195,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":42.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_caba0f00-336c-4d93-bcd9-f93888dbe4ca.jpg?v=1664026398","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/new-versions-of-victims-feminists-struggle-with-the-concept-9780814751534","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}