Why Women Are Blamed For Everything: Exploring the Victim Blaming of Women Subjected to Violence and Trauma

Why Women Are Blamed For Everything: Exploring the Victim Blaming of Women Subjected to Violence and Trauma
ISBN-10
0244498342
ISBN-13
9780244498344
Category
Reference
Pages
330
Language
English
Published
2020-04-15
Author
Jessica Taylor

Description

She asked for it. She was flirting. She was drinking. She was wearing a revealing dress. She was too confident. She walked home alone. She stayed in that relationship. She was naïve. She didn't report soon enough. She didn't fight back. She wanted it. She lied about it. She comes from a bad area. She was vulnerable. She should have known. Victim blaming of women is prevalent and normalised in society. What causes us to blame women who have been abused, raped, trafficked, assaulted or harassed by men? Why are we uncomfortable with placing all of the blame on perpetrators for their crimes against women? Based on three years of doctoral research and ten years of practice with women and girls, Dr Jessica Taylor explores the many reasons we blame women for male violence committed against them. Written in her unique style and backed up by decades of evidence, this book exposes the powerful forces in society and individual psychology which compel us to blame women subjected to male violence.

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