New Versions of Victims Feminists Struggle with the Concept

"Written in clear, accessible language...New Versions of Victims offers a critical analysis of popular debates about victimization that will be applicable to both practice and theory." (Adolescence) "Challenges feminists, the therapy community and the academic community to think about the meanings of abuse to the abused and to the culture at large. . . . A valuable contribution to feminist discourse" (Journal of Moral Education) "New Versions of Victims: Feminists Struggle with the Concept contribute[s] to the project of moving feminist theory and practice beyond reliance, implicit or explicit, on the abstract dualisms of liberal thinking." (Hypatia) "Timely contribution to the theorization of rape and helps delineate areas in need of further analysis. [Lamb] also address[es] the issue from radically different perspectives and methodologies...particularly noteworthy." (SIGNS)

Sharon Lamb is Associate Professor of Psychology at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. She is the author of The Trouble With Blame: Victims, Perpetrators, and Responsibility.