1st Edition

Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse Knowledge, Power, and the Cultural Conditions of Victimhood

By Sherianne Kramer Copyright 2017
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse is a groundbreaking study into gender, sexuality and victimhood. It examines the cultural conditions of possibility for FSA victimhood as a means to advance contemporary critical understandings of the role of gender and sexuality as instruments of modern power. As the first direct exploration of FSA victimhood, this book analyses: why victims of FSA remain so... Read more

Introduction

Part One: Female sexual violence: An object of power/knowledge

Part Two: FSA victimisation: Conditions of (im)possibility

2.1. Material, political and historical conditions for gender and sexuality

2.2. Discursive possibilities for FSA victims

2.3. On becoming a victim

Part Three: An emergent FSA victimhood: Theoretical and practical implications for psychology

References

Biography

Sherianne Kramer is a registered South African research psychologist and psychology lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests are primarily focused within the critical psychology discipline and include crime, violence and injury prevention, female and child perpetrated physical and sexual violence, gender identity and performativity and knowledge productions.