Survivor Rhetoric : : Negotiations and Narrativity in Abused Women's Language / / ed. by Christine Shearer-Cremean, Carol L. Winkelmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Baker, Carrie N.,; Colton, Cathy A.,; Daly, Brenda,; Holmes, Cindy,; Newman, Elana,; Ristock, Janice L.,; Shearer-Cremean, Christine,; Weinbaum, Batya,; Winkelmann, Carol L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Shearer-Cremean, Christine,; Winkelmann, Carol L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

Survivor Rhetoric is a collection of essays about the language of abused women and girls written by feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, including literary studies, psychology, law, and criminal justice. Editors Christine Shearer-Cremean and Carol L. Winkelmann have compiled a wholly ori...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Narrative, Gender, and Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse
• Chapter 2. Speaking in Contradictions: Complex Agency of Battered Women Who Kill
• Chapter 3. A Survivor within a Culture of Survivors: Untangling the Language of Sexual Abuse in Oral History Narrative Collected in a Politically Violent Situation
• Chapter 4. Exploring Discursive Constructions of Lesbian Abuse: Looking Inside and Out
• Chapter 5. Shattered Dreams: A Material Rhetorical Reading of Charlotte Fedders's Memoir of Domestic Abuse
• Chapter 6. When the Daughter Tells Her Story: The Rhetorical Challenges of Disclosing Father-Daughter Incest
• Chapter 7. The Epistemology of Police Science and the Silencing of Battered Women
• Chapter 8. The Language of Healing: Generic Structure, Hybridization, and Meaning Shifts in the Recovery of Battered Women
• Conclusion
• Contributors