Survivor rhetoric
Subtitle: negotiations and narrativity in abused women's language
By: edited by Christine Shearer-Cremean and Carol L. Winkelmann.
Contributors: Winkelmann, Carol Lea.; Shearer-Cremean, Christine.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Abused women -- Language.; Abused women -- Public opinion.; Sexual abuse victims -- Language.; Narrative therapy.; Sociolinguistics.; femmes victimes de violence -- Langues.; Femmes victimes de violence -- Opinion publique.; Thérapie narrative.; Sociolinguistique.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- Christine Shearer-Cremean and Carol L. Winkelman; title: Narrative, gender, and recovery from childhood sexual abuse -- Elana Newman; title: Speaking in contradictions : complex agency of battered women who kill -- Carrie N. Baker; title: 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; title: Exploring discursive constructions of lesbian abuse : looking inside and out -- Cindy Holmes and Janice L. Ristock; title: Shattered dreams : a material rhyetorical reading of Charlotte Fedders's memoir of domestic abuse -- Cathy A. Colton; title: When the daughter tells her story : the rhetorical challenges disclosing father-daughter incest -- Brenda Daly; title: The epistemology of police science and the silencing of battered women -- Christine Shearer-Cremean; title: The language of healing : Generic structure, hybridization, and meaning shifts in the recovery of battered women -- Carol L. Winkelmann; title: Conclusion -- Christine Shearer-Cremean and Carol L. Winkelmann.