Title: The Politics of Survivorship
First published: 1996
Description: In The Politics of Survivorship, Champagne explores a range of cultural representations of incest, from the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, to mother-daughter incest in contemporary true crime novels, to Oprah Winfrey's television special Scared Silent, in order to examine expressions of survivorship. In the process, Champagne attempts to level the disparity and the hierarchy of value among theory, literature, popular culture, and social movements.

Champagne makes a powerful argument that community and academic feminists should embrace survivorship as a potential site of feminist political intervention into patriarchy and heterosexism. She concludes with a critical look at the way in which the False Memory Syndrome Foundation has conducted an antifeminist campaign against incest survivors and their therapists.
Subjects: History and criticism, American literature, History, Feminism and literature, Adult child sexual abuse victims in literature, Incest in literature, Psychoanalysis and literature, Women authors, Feminist fiction, Women and literature, English fiction, Patriarchy in literature, Incest victims, Feminist theory, Sociology, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Adult child abuse victims
Places: English-speaking countries
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century
LC classification: PS169.I5 C43 1996