Knowing Victims

Stringer, Rebecca

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“…Overly optimistic biomedical and normalisation narratives can effectively silence the suffering of L-TS, subtly aided by the empowerment approach that has otherwise served PLHIV so well. A similar dilemma has been critiqued by Stringer (2014) in relation to survivors of abuse and rape. She argued that feminist empowerment has dovetailed with neoliberal individual responsibility so that suffering is only conceptualized as victimhood.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 88%

Grit and stigma: Gay men ageing with HIV in regional Queensland

Gardiner

2018

Journal of Sociology

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The ageing of the first generation of HIV long-term survivors brings into sharp focus the suffering that activism and the clinical management of HIV has not solved, particularly in regional areas. Although HIV is now usually a manageable chronic condition, it also involves navigating unrelenting social stigma. Quality of life beyond viral suppression is not assured. Despite a history of affected communities demanding equal partnership with health-care providers, an increasingly biomedicalized orientation risks neglecting the psycho-social needs of those with a history of trauma, depression and other co-morbidities often more difficult to manage than HIV itself.

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confidence: 88%

Grit and stigma: Gay men ageing with HIV in regional Queensland

Gardiner

2018

Journal of Sociology

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“…Neoliberalism is an ideology associated with the deregulation of markets, individualization, corporatization, and the displacement of public services onto private organizations (Bumiller, 2008; Gottschalk, 2015). Neoliberalism frames the understanding of oppression as individual psychopathy and rational choice, rather than caused by structural oppression (Stringer, 2014). The popularization of this economic approach fueled the political desire for budgetary austerity while reducing the belief in governmental responsibility for addressing social problems, including rape (Gottschalk, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

The “Bait and Switch” of Sexual Assault Response: Expanded Carceral Power at a Rape Crisis Center

Whalley

2019

Affilia

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Rape crisis centers (RCCs) were established during the mainstream anti-rape movement in the United States during the 1970s. In the decades that followed, RCCs began to depend on governmental grants to stay open, shifting the antagonistic relationship that existed between many RCCs and state structures. Previous research has conceptualized this RCC institutionalization as a reluctant concession requisite to the continuation of victim services and the anti-rape movement. This article draws upon three years of ethnographic research and 40 interviews at a United States RCC to illustrate how institutionalization facilitated one RCC’s complicity in the expansion of the carceral state. I propose the transformation of this RCC illuminates a sexual assault response “bait and switch” that serves carceral agendas. I reach this conclusion using data drawn from three themes: (1) the outsourcing of the hotline and conversion to criminal-legal victim services, (2) criminal-legal integration that did not expand the influence of the RCC, and (3) the facilitation of the criminalization of victims through a process of net widening. Building from previous research, these findings document the result of criminal-legal integration at one RCC: the expansion of the carceral state into the center, to the detriment of victims and efforts to end sexual assault.

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“…Fraser () argues the feminist critique of capitalism's androcentrism increasingly serves to legitimate a new mode of capital accumulation, heavily dependent on women's waged labour, while in the face of problems such as declining fertility Repo () contends gender equality work/life balance policy has been deployed ‘as a new modality for the re‐optimization of population and productivity’. Feminist ideals such as self‐empowerment and choice have transmuted into an instrumental language that favours empowerment as autonomy in the market (Rottenberg, ; Schild, , p. 14) while ‘neoliberalism's intensification of economic inequality is accompanied by discourses that derogate and pathologize complaints against inequality’ creating an environment in which victims are blamed for their failures (Stringer, , p. 8). Austerity policy for many feminist critics has signified an ‘intensification of previous neoliberal policies, including cutting down welfare services and public sector jobs’ (Elomäki & Kantola, , p. 337).…”

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confidence: 99%

The resonance of moderate feminism and the gendered relations of austerity

Budgeon

2018

Gender Work & Organization

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During the tenure of the UK Conservative‐led coalition government (2010–15) austerity policy was rolled out in response to the global financial crisis of 2007–08. In this article a discourse analysis of mainstream newspaper representations of austerity, which appeared throughout this period, is undertaken using the principles of Cultural Political Economy (Jessop 2004). Three key questions are posed: 1) How is gender drawn upon to render austerity intelligible? 2) How do these discursive constructions contribute to the reproduction of particular ideas regarding contemporary gender relations? 3) What do these gendered austerity discourses reveal about the institutionalisation of particular forms of feminism? A critical gender discourse which emphasised equality appeared alongside constructions of gender that reproduced problematic assumptions. Made meaningful in this way, austerity, as a strategy for restoring pre‐crash social arrangements, also restored particular aspects of gender relations. This is theorised as the product of the successful institutionalisation of a hegemonic, moderate liberal feminism prior to the financial crash. The findings contribute to debates within feminist scholarship about the dynamics of gender inclusion and extend our understanding of the associated implications for feminist critique.

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Knowing Victims

Cited by 66 publications

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Grit and stigma: Gay men ageing with HIV in regional Queensland

Grit and stigma: Gay men ageing with HIV in regional Queensland

The “Bait and Switch” of Sexual Assault Response: Expanded Carceral Power at a Rape Crisis Center

The resonance of moderate feminism and the gendered relations of austerity

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