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Putting Feminism to Work

Putting Feminism to Work: Theorising Sexual Violence, Trauma and Subjectivity

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Putting Feminism to Work: Theorising Sexual Violence, Trauma and Subjectivity

Egan, Suzanne

This book explores the place of feminism and uptake of trauma in contemporary work against sexual violence. Egan presents a refreshing alternative position on arguments about the co-optation or erasure of feminism within institutionalized, professionalized services for sexual assault victims. Using original research on Australian sexual assault services, Putting Feminism to Work effectively illustrates how feminist concepts and ideas have become routinized in contemporary services and enacted in daily practices with survivors and communities. The book engages with, yet resists, the notion that feminist engagement with knowledge (trauma) based in psychiatry and clinical psychology is incompatible with feminism or inevitably reduces sexual violence to a problem of individual healing. Indeed Egan argues that the productive ways practitioners integrate neurobiological understandings of trauma into their work suggests rich possibilities for reintroducing a non-essentialist biology of the body into feminist theories of sexual violence. 

Scholars, students and practitioners working in the fields of violence against women, sociology, women’s and gender studies, health, social work and policy studies, as well as the emerging field of sociologically informed trauma studies, will find this book of interest.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2020-11-24

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030221089

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-22109-6

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 175

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