Survivor Rhetoric: Negotiations and Narrativity in Abused Women's Language Book

	Introduction	3
1	Narrative, gender, and recovery from childhood sexual abuse	23
2	Speaking in contradictions : complex agency of battered women who kill	42
3	A survivor within a culture of survivors : untangling the language of sexual abuse in oral history narrative collected in a politically violent situation	64
4	Exploring discursive constructions of lesbian abuse : looking inside and out	94
5	Shattered dreams : a material rhetorical reading of Charlotte Fedders's memoir of domestic abuse	120
6	When the daughter tells her story : the rhetorical challenges of disclosing father-daughter incest	139
7	The epistemology of police science and the silencing of battered women	166
8	The language of healing : generic structure, hybridization, and meaning shifts in the recovery of battered women	198
	Conclusion	229