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Rocking The Cradle Of Sexual Politics
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Book Synopsis Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics by : Louise Armstrong
Download or read book Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics written by Louise Armstrong and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1978 Louise Armstrong started it all by writing Kiss Daddy Goodnight, the bestselling book that spoke the terrible truth about incest. Now, more than fifteen years later, she stops to ask the questions: How did we get here? How did we get from "dread taboo" to the point where talk of incest is routine and banal, a pet of the talk shows? How did we get from serious inquiry into what causes incest - to exclusive focus on what incest causes? How did we get from total disbelief, to a brief moment of belief in the testimony of women and children - to the point where, once again, women's and children's credibility is under attack? To False Memory Syndrome and adult survivors undergoing exorcism - into a glare and cacophony such that the best interests of our children are still being forsaken and self-described healers and empowerers are getting rich." "Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics is the story of skillfully mounted backlash. But it is also the story of how it is now possible for the powers-that-be to use noise to achieve the end that was once served by repression and enforced silence - and how they defuse the political, the potentially politically explosive, by turning it into the personal. It is, alas, also the story of the power of the promise of "help" and the language of "treatment" to infantilize massive numbers of women, and to lead us away from any serious action for change."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis The Sex Offender: Theoretical advances, treating special populations, and legal developments by : Barbara K. Schwartz
Download or read book The Sex Offender: Theoretical advances, treating special populations, and legal developments written by Barbara K. Schwartz and published by Civic Research Institute, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hystories written by Elaine Showalter and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with fascinating new perspectives on a culture saturated with syndromes of every sort, "Hystories" skillfully surveys the condition of hysteria--its causes, cures, famous patients, and doctors--in the 20th century to show that hysterias are always with us, a kind of collective coping mechanism for changing times.
Download or read book Healing Sex written by Staci Haines and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healing Sex is the encouraging, sex-positive guide for all women survivors of sexual assault - heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, coupled, and single - who want to delight in their own sexuality. While most books on the topic broach sexuality to reassure women that it's all right to say ''no'' to unwanted sex, Healing Sex encourages women to learn how to say ''yes'' - to their own desires and on their own terms
Book Synopsis Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma by : Jane Kilby
Download or read book Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma written by Jane Kilby and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 1970s and 1980s speaking out about the traumatic reality of incest and rape was a rare and politically groundbreaking act. Today it is a ubiquitous feature of popular culture and its political value uncertain. In Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma, Jane Kilby explores the complexity and consequences of this shift in giving first-hand testimony by focusing on debates over recovered memory therapy and false memory syndrome, the spectacle of talkshow disclosures, discourses of innocence and complicity as well as the aesthetics and affect of shock. In counterpoint to the frequently cynical readings of personal narrative politics, Kilby advances an alternative reading built around the concept of unrepresentability. Key to this intervention is the stress placed by Kilby on the limits of representing sexually traumatic experiences and how this requires both theoretical and methodological innovation. Based on close readings of survivor narratives and artworks, this book demonstrates the significance of unrepresentability for a feminist understanding of sexual violence and victimisation. The book will of interest to those working in the areas of Cultural, Literary, Media and Women's Studies as well as Memory and Trauma Studies.Key Features* Provides a topical discussion of the debates generated by a mass culture of speaking out about violence and victimisation* Offers an interdisciplinary case-study analysis of survivor testimony* Applies cutting-edge developments in trauma and testimony theory to a feminist analysis of women's incest testimony* Makes accessible the significance of unrepresentability for a cultural politics of trauma
Book Synopsis Victim, Perpetrator, or What Else? by : Doris Bühler-Niederberger
Download or read book Victim, Perpetrator, or What Else? written by Doris Bühler-Niederberger and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume maps the ways that children and young people are considered victims or perpetrators by their societies and consequently the ways that their societies react. The chapters analyse a variety of phenomena in different countries of the Global North and South.
Book Synopsis Child Abuse, Gender and Society by : Jackie Turton
Download or read book Child Abuse, Gender and Society written by Jackie Turton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the silence that surrounds the sexual abuse of children by women; uncovering the denial, minimization and rationales used by the victims, the perpetrators and the professionals.
Book Synopsis Loose Women, Lecherous Men by : Linda LeMoncheck
Download or read book Loose Women, Lecherous Men written by Linda LeMoncheck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linda LeMoncheck introduces a new way of thinking and talking about women's sexual pleasures, preferences, and desires. Using the tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, she discusses methods for mediating the tensions among apparently irreconcilable feminist perspectives on women's sexuality and shows how a feminist epistemology and ethic can advance the dialogue in women's sexuality across a broad political spectrum. She argues that in order to capture the diversity and complexity of women's sexual experience, women's sexuality must be examined from two equally compelling perspectives: that of women's sexual oppression under conditions of individual and institutional male dominance; and that of women's sexual liberation, both in terms of each woman's pursuit of sexual agency and self-definition, and in terms of women's sexual liberation as a class. Loose Women, Lecherous Men sheds crucial new light on such much-debated topics as promiscuity, adultery, sexual deviance, prostitution, pornography, sexual harassment, and sexual violence against women. Her book supports a dialogue that encourages both women and men to take up a feminist perspective in exploring the meaning and value of sexuality in their lives.
Book Synopsis Gender and PTSD by : Rachel Kimerling
Download or read book Gender and PTSD written by Rachel Kimerling and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2002-08-19 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current research and clinical observations suggest pronounced gender-based differences in the ways people respond to traumatic events. Most notably, women evidence twice the rate of PTSD as men following traumatic exposure. This important volume brings together leading clinical scientists to analyze the current state of knowledge on gender and PTSD. Cogent findings are presented on gender-based differences and influences in such areas as trauma exposure, risk factors, cognitive and physiological processes, comorbidity, and treatment response. Going beyond simply cataloging gender-related data, the book explores how the research can guide us in developing more effective clinical services for both women and men. Incorporating cognitive, biological, physiological, and sociocultural perspectives, this is an essential sourcebook and text.
Book Synopsis Handbook on Gender and Violence by : Laura J. Shepherd
Download or read book Handbook on Gender and Violence written by Laura J. Shepherd and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing contributions from leading experts in the field, this Handbook explores the many ways gender and violence interact across different contexts and offers a range of disciplinary perspectives. This comprehensive volume connects micro-level interpersonal violence to macro-level structural forms of violence across three discrete but interrelated sections: concepts, representations, and contexts.
Book Synopsis New Versions of Victims by : Sharon Lamb
Download or read book New Versions of Victims written by Sharon Lamb and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers collected here present a critical analysis of popular debates about victimization. The authors argue that we must move beyond polarized positions to examine the "victim" as a socially constructed term and to explore, in nuanced terms, why we see victims the way we do. Must one have been subjected 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? The papers simultaneously critique exaggerated claims by victim advocates about the harm of victimization, while taking on the reactionary boilerplate of writers such as Katie Roiphe and Camille Paglia, and offering further strategies for countering the backlash.
Download or read book Pillar of Salt written by Janice Haaken and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the controversy over recollections of childhood sexual abuse as the window onto a broader field of ideas concerning memory, storytelling, and the psychology of women.
Book Synopsis Gender Violence, 3rd Edition by : Laura L. O'Toole
Download or read book Gender Violence, 3rd Edition written by Laura L. O'Toole and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of the groundbreaking anthology that explores the proliferation of gendered violence From Harvey Weinstein to Brett Kavanaugh, accusations of gender violence saturate today’s headlines. In this fully revised edition of Gender Violence, Laura L. O’Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman, and Rosemary Sullivan bring together a new, interdisciplinary group of scholars, with up-to-date material on emerging issues like workplace harassment, transgender violence, intersectionality, and the #MeToo movement. Contributors provide a fresh, informed perspective on gender violence, in all of its various forms. With twenty-nine new contributors, and twelve original essays, the third edition now includes emerging contemporary issues such as LGBTQ violence, sex work, and toxic masculinity. A trailblazing text, Gender Violence, Third Edition is an essential read for students, activists, and others.
Book Synopsis Snakes and Ladders: Reviewing Feminisms at Century's End by :
Download or read book Snakes and Ladders: Reviewing Feminisms at Century's End written by and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the current state of feminist thinking in the run-up to the millenium, its priorities and concerns; drawing critical attention to the losses as well as the gains of contemporary feminist work.
Book Synopsis Freeing the First Amendment by : David S. Allen
Download or read book Freeing the First Amendment written by David S. Allen and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a society that prides itself on the most expansive legal guarantees of free speech in history, why are so many individuals and groups frustrated by the American system of freedom of expression? As the public sphere continues to be redefined by advances in technology, and new debates about this technology crop up daily, the time has come to move from reflexive discussions about the value of more speech to a detailed assessment of the real power and limits of speech.Why, this volume asks, does the First Amendment--the very document intended to ensure the freedom of U.S. citizens--need to be freed? And from what?Long an icon in American law, politics, and journalism, the First Amendment--and the potential and real dilemmas with which it presents us--have only recently begun to be scrutinized. Challenging the idea that the only champions of free speech are traditional liberal theorists who oppose alternatives to the mainstream interpretation of the First Amendment, the contributors to this volume, among them such prominent thinkers as Frederick Schauer, Owen Fiss, and Cass Sunstein, explore new and provocative ways to think about freedom of expression. By reformulating traditional liberal and libertarian approaches to the First Amendment, this volume convincingly disputes the notion that those who question an unwavering reliance on free- and-open competition between individuals to produce free expression are necessarily enemies of free speech. It argues instead that these alleged enemies can in fact be champions as well.
Book Synopsis Writing the Survivor by : Robin E. Field
Download or read book Writing the Survivor written by Robin E. Field and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing the Survivor: The Rape Novel in Late Twentieth-Century American Fiction identifies a new genre of American fiction, the rape novel, that recenters narratives of sexual violence on the survivors of violence and abuse, rather than the perpetrators. The rape novel arose during the women’s liberation movement as women writers collectively challenged the traditional erasure of female subjectivity and agency found in earlier representations of sexual violence in American fiction. The rape novel not only foregrounds survivors and their stories in a textual centering that affirms their dignity and self-worth, but also develops new narratological strategies for portraying violent, disturbing subject matter. In bringing together many key women’s texts of the last decades of the 20th century, the rape novel demonstrates the centrality of sexual assault to women’s fiction of this era. The rape novels of the 21st century continue the political activism inherent in the genre—educating readers, offering community to survivors, and encouraging social activism—as the stories of male survivors are increasingly told. A radical reconsideration of late twentieth-century American novels, Writing the Survivor underscores the importance of women’s activism upon the novel’s form and content and reveals the portrayal of rape as rape to be an interethnic imperative.
Book Synopsis Feminism and Method by : Nancy A. Naples
Download or read book Feminism and Method written by Nancy A. Naples and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naples draws on different research topics, such as welfare, poverty, sexual identity, and sexual abuse, to illustrate some of the most salient dilemmas of feminist research: the debate over objectivity, the paradox of discourse, the dilemma of "standpoint," and the challenges of activist research. By linking important feminist theoretical debates with case studies, Naples illustrates the strategies she developed for resolving the challenges posed be postmodern, Third World, postcolonial, and queer studies.
