...York Press, 2004. Reviewed by Jane Jorgenson, University of South Florida.

Two recent books focus on the rhetorical and social contexts within which women give voice to their experiences of abuse. Together, they further our understanding of the various discourses that shape our thinking about abuse and survivorship. Survivor Rhetoric: Negotiations and Narrativity in Abused Women's Language, an anthology edited by Christine Shearer-Cremean and Carol L. Winkelmann, reveals how the discursive frameworks underlying psychotherapy, criminal justice, religion and other institutions, may function overtly or subtly to undermine the healing of abused women who are seeking to free themselves from painful and restrictive patterns of self-definition. The Language of Battered Women, research monograph authored by Winkelmann demonstrates that despite the political nature of language, possibilities exist for women...

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