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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 across a wide array of discourses, and the neoliberal replacement of the concept of structural oppression with the concept of...

Knowing Victims explores the theme of victimhood in contemporary feminism. Analyzing the debate about 'victim feminism' that has unfolded since the 1980s, the author critically weighs the key recurrent claim voiced in this debate: that feminists need to abandon the woman-as-victim theme if they are to recognize women's agency and create effective strategies for change. Drawing in particular on Lyotard and Nietzsche, the author responds to this claim with a defense of the concept of victim and of feminist victim politics. Rather than being mired in a narrow concept of the victim as a passive...