Professor Tanya Serisier draws on her extensive knowledge of rape memoirs to craft her own narrative, inviting survivors to move beyond the constrained politics of speaking out to create a better context for listening.
Show Notes
Speaking Out
By Tanya Serisier
Feminism, Rape and Narrative Politics
Serisier, Tanya (2018) Speaking out: feminism, rape and narrative politics. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 9783319986692.
Serisier, Tanya (2020) Speaking out, public judgements and narrative politics: researching survivor stories and (not) telling my own. In: Gray-Rosendale, L.A. (ed.) Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy. Lanham, U.S.: Lexington Books. pp. 167-180. ISBN 9781793611123.
Serisier, Tanya (2024) #BelieveWomen, revisited: refusing the politics of doubt. Feminist Theory ISSN 1464-7001.
Matthews, H. and Serisier, Tanya (2024) Bombing Gaza isn’t fighting sexual violence. Counterpunch ISSN 2328-4331.
Kennedy, R. and Serisier, Tanya (2023) ‘Somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change’: Prima Facie and the cruel optimism of feminist legal advocacy. Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal ISSN 1741-6590.
Serisier, Tanya (2015) “How Can a Woman Who Has Been Raped Be Believed”. Andrea Dworkin, sexual violence and the ethics of belief. Diegesis 4 (1), pp. 68-87. ISSN 2195-2116.
Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives. Columbia University Press, 2017 (paperback edition with new preface, 2018).
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