Full Description
This volume critically analyses political strategies, civil society initiatives and modes of representation that challenge the conventional narratives of women in contexts of violence. It deepens into the concepts of victimhood and agency that inform the current debate on women as victims.
The volume opens the scope to explore initiatives that transcend the pair abuser-victim and explore the complex relations between gender and violence, and individual and collective accountability, through politics, activism and cultural productions in order to seek social transformation for gender justice. In innovative and interdisciplinary case studies, it brings attention to initiatives and narratives that make new spaces possible in which to name, self-identify, and resignify the female political subject as a social agent in situations of violence. The volume is global in scope, bringing together contributions ranging from India, Cambodia or Kenya, to Quebec, Bosnia or Spain. Different aspects of gender-based violence are analysed, from intimate relationships, sexual violence, military contexts, society and institutions.
Re-writing Women as Victims: From Theory to Practice will be a key text for students, researchers and professionals in gender studies, political sciences, sociology and media and cultural Studies. Activists and policy makers will also find its practical approach and engagement with social transformation to be essential reading.
Contents
1 Reframing women's victimization: Challenges and possibilities, Part I Politics, 2 Women Survivors of sexist abuse in Spain: The role of affects of proximity and recognition on the way out, 3 The 'comfort women' apologies: Gender victimhood and the politics of grievability, 4 Gender, agency and the construction of a rape victim: The ICTY and the prosecution of sexual violence in Bosnia-Hercegovina, 5 Women's resistance in violent settings: Infrapolitical strategies in Brazil and Colombia, 6 Towards transformative gender equality: The importance of addressing economic violence against women in Cambodia, Part II: Activism, 7 Feminist and grassroots activism rewriting women as victims: Kenyan women's untold story, 8 Collective action and organization against gender violence in Spain: When victims became activists, 9 Transnational feminist activism to reframe femicide: The case of #NiuNaMenos and #VivasNosQueremos, 10 Materialising resistance against rape culture online: The phenomenon of SlutWalks, 11 Mukhtaran Mai's transformation from gang-rape victim to the feminist face of glamour: Transcending notions of tribal honour, gender and class in Pakistan, Part III: Cultural narratives, 12 'Pump up the positivity': Neoliberalism, affective entrepreneurship and the victimhood/agency debate, 13 Radical vulnerability: Feminism, victimhood and agency, 14 Rethinking the victim in Zoë Morrison's Music and Freedom (2016), 15 Survivor speech: Formulations of the victim/survivor identity in contemporary UK media, 16 Rape victims, representation and resistance in India: Between collectivity and solitariness
