Knowing Victims: Feminism, agency and victim politics in neoliberal times

by Rebecca Stringer

Book Overview

Knowing Victims explores the theme of victimhood in contemporary feminism and politics. It focuses on popular and scholarly constructions of feminism as 'victim feminism' - an ideology of passive victimhood that denies women's agency - 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415643333
• ISBN13: 9780415643337
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"