This paper reviews the literature providing reasons for why battered women “stay” in abusive
relationships and examines the emergence of images of battered women as “survivors” in …

When describing women who have been raped, does how they are framed—eg, as “rape
victims” versus as “rape survivors”—matter? Based on critical feminist (eg, Lugones, 2003) …

First published in 2004. Therapy Culture explores the powerful influence of therapeutic
imperative in Anglo-American societies. In recent decades virtually every sphere of life has …

To explain the astounding over-representation of blacks behind bars that has driven mass
imprisonment in the United States, one must break out of thecrime-and …

In the award-winning Just Sex? The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape, Nicola Gavey provides an
extensive commentary on the existing literature on rape, analysing recent research to …

The new second edition of this distinctive and widely adopted textbook brings into the
classroom an overview of how images of social problems can shape not only public policy …

I argue that the study of narrative identity would benefit from more sustained and explicit
attention to relationships among cultural, institutional, organizational, and personal …

“Victim” and “survivor” identities are central to discourses on sexual victimization. Activist
and academic discourses associate the former with weakness and latter with strength, while …

This highly successful reader presents the interactionist approach to the study of deviance,
examining deviance as a phenomenon that is constituted through social interpretations and …

The trafficking of human beings has attracted considerable public and political concern at
national and global levels in recent years. The problem of trafficking typically conjures up …