Women Survivors, Psychological Trauma, and the Politics of Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780789011138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 232 str.

Norma Jean Profitt

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This one-of-a-kind book explores the processes through which women survivors of abuse can transform psychological trauma into a politics of resistance and become involved in action for social change. Women Survivors, Psychological Trauma, and the Politics of Resistance uses storytelling techniques and the testimony of survivors to reveal the processes, factors, insights, and events that prompted these women to join in the collective struggle against violence against women and children.

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Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• A Retrospective
• Contextual Framework
• Situating This Study
• Focus and Methodology of Study
• Organization of the Book
• Chapter 2. Shaping the Practices of the Transition House Movement: From a Discourse of Agency Toward a Discourse of Self-Esteem
• Brief Overview of the Battered Women's Movement
• The Struggle Over Definition of the Needs of Battered Women
• The Professionalization and Repoliticization of Shelters
• Dominant Discourse and the Positioning of Abused Women As Clients
• Chapter 3. June's Story
• Chapter 4. Rewriting a Survivor's Life: Revisiting the Past to Form the Future
• Chapter 5. “Rediscovering What These Bones Are About, What This Flesh Is About”
• Shifting the Grounds of Consciousness: Naming and Challenging Hegemonic Constructions of Violence Against Women
• The Process of Making Sense: Recognizing Contradiction and Conflict and Making Conscious the Invisible and the Unconscious
• Tensions, Transgressions, and Threats: Pain and Promise
• Liberatory Discourses and Spaces: Self-Recovery, Social Analysis, and Collective Action
• Changes in Subjectivity: Self-Acceptance and Shifting Structures of Identity
• Women's Collective Action: Knowledge, Consciousness, and Transformations of Identity
• Chapter 6. Finding the Self in Other: Reflections on a Researcher's Life
• Reflexivity in Feminist Research
• My Journey Through the Research Process
• Confrontation with the Unnamed and Reflections on the Self
• Critical Analysis of the Process of Uncovering the Repressed
• Directions for Feminist Social Work Research
• Chapter 7. Silences, Gaps, and Absences: Understanding How Differences Matter
• Spaces for Collective Analysis of Experience and Opportunities for Collective Action
• Political and Ethical Commitments and Healing
• Barriers to Building Communities of Healing, Action, and Change
• Constructing Avenues of Action for Survivors
• Class Relations
• Conceptualizations of and Attitudes Toward Survivors
• Investments in Identities As Workers/Feminists/Professionals
• Work Structures and Processes
• Future Directions and Challenges
• Chapter 8. Implications and Directions for Feminist Social Work Practice
• Reradicalizing Our Movement and Our Work with Survivors
• Reenvisioning Our Movement and Working Together Across Differences
• The Many Voices of Survivors: Speaking About Our Lives
• Turning the Gaze on Ourselves As Workers, Feminists, Survivors, and Professionals in the Movement
• Appendix: Participants in This Study
• June
• Paola
• Donna
• Jackie
• Ruth
• Victoria
• Barbara
• Heather
• Rosario
• Maryanne
• Eleanor
• Notes
• References
• Index

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