Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/Dqxa6d Knowing Victims Feminism, agency and victim politics in neoliberal times By: Rebecca Stringer Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415634922, 041563492X eText ISBN: 9781134746088, 1134746083 Edition: 1st Pages: 200 Copyright year: 2014 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.98 USD SKU 9781134746088R90 Knowing Victims explores the theme of victimhood in contemporary feminism and politics. It focuses on popular and scholarly constructions of feminism as âvictim feminismâ â an ideology of passive victimhood that denies womenâs agency â and provides the first comprehensive analysis of the debate about this ideology which has unfolded among feminists since the 1980s. The book critically examines a movement away from the language of victimhood across a wide array of discourses, and the neoliberal replacement of the concept of structural oppression with the concept of personal responsibility. In derogating the notion of âvictim,â neoliberalism promotes a conception of victimization as subjective rather than social, a state of mind, rather than a worldly situation. Drawing upon Nietzsche, Lyotard, rape crisis feminism and feminist philosophy, Stringer situates feminist politicizations of rape, interpersonal violence, economic inequality and welfare reform as key sites of resistance to the victim-blaming logic of neoliberalism. She suggests that although recent feminist critiques of âvictim feminismâ have critically diagnosed the anti-victim movement, they have not positively defended victim politics. Stringer argues that a conception of the victim as an agentic bearer of knowledge, and an understanding of resentment as a generative force for social change, provides a potent counter to the negative construction of victimhood characteristic of the neoliberal era. This accessible and insightful analysis of feminism, neoliberalism and the social construction of victimhood will be of great interest to researchers and students in the disciplines of gender and womenâs studies, psychology, sociology, politics and philosophy. Additional ISBNs 9781134746088, 9781134746019, 9781306890588, 9781134746156, 1134746083, 1134746016, 1306890586, 1134746156, 9780415634922, 9780415643337, 041563492X, 0415643333
