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

了解受害者探討了當代女權主義和政治中受害者的主題。它側重於女性主義的流行和學術建構，即“受害女權主義” - 一種否定女性代理的被動受害者的意識形態 - 並且首次全面分析了自20世紀80年代以來在女權主義者中展開的關於這種意識形態的辯論。這本書批判性地探討了在各種各樣的話語中遠離受害者語言的運動，以及新自由主義以個人責任的概念取代結構性壓迫的概念。

在貶低“受害者”的概念時，新自由主義將受害概念提升為主觀而非社會，一種心態，而不是一種世俗的情境。借鑒尼采，利奧塔，強姦危機女權主義和女權主義哲學，斯金格將強姦，人際暴力，經濟不平等和福利改革等女權主義政治化定位為抵制新自由主義的受害者責任邏輯的關鍵場所。她認為，雖然最近女權主義者對“受害女權主義”的批評已經批判性地診斷出反受害者運動，但他們沒有積極地為受害者政治辯護。

斯金格認為，受害者作為知識的代理人的概念，以及對怨恨作為社會變革的生成力的理解，為新自由主義時代的受害者特徵的消極建構提供了強有力的對抗。這種對女權主義，新自由主義和受害者社會建構的可及性和洞察性分析將引起性別和婦女研究，心理學，社會學，政治和哲學學科的研究人員和學生的極大興趣。

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 personal responsibility.

In derogating the notion of `victim,' neoliberalism promotes a conception of victimization as subjective rather than social, a state of mind, rather than a worldly situation. Drawing upon Nietzsche, Lyotard, rape crisis feminism and feminist philosophy, Stringer situates feminist politicizations of rape, interpersonal violence, economic inequality and welfare reform as key sites of resistance to the victim-blaming logic of neoliberalism. She suggests that although recent feminist critiques of `victim feminism' have critically diagnosed the anti-victim movement, they have not positively defended victim politics.

Stringer argues that a conception of the victim as an agentic bearer of knowledge, and an understanding of resentment as a generative force for social change, provides a potent counter to the negative construction of victimhood characteristic of the neoliberal era. This accessible and insightful analysis of feminism, neoliberalism and the social construction of victimhood will be of great interest to researchers and students in the disciplines of gender and women's studies, psychology, sociology, politics and philosophy.

 Rebecca Stringer(Autor) 

Publisher:Routledge 

ISBN:   978-0415643337 

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