Survivor rhetoric: negotiations and narrativity in abused women's language

Introduction / Christine Shearer-Cremean and Carol L. Winkelman

Narrative, gender, and recovery from childhood sexual abuse / Elana Newman

Speaking in contradictions : complex agency of battered women who kill / Carrie N. Baker

A survivor within a culture of survivors : untangling the language of sexual abuse in oral history narrative collected in a politically violent situation / Batya Weinbaum

Exploring discursive constructions of lesbian abuse : looking inside and out / Cindy Holmes and Janice L. Ristock

Shattered dreams : a material rhyetorical reading of Charlotte Fedders's memoir of domestic abuse / Cathy A. Colton

When the daughter tells her story : the rhetorical challenges disclosing father-daughter incest / Brenda Daly

The epistemology of police science and the silencing of battered women / Christine Shearer-Cremean

The language of healing : Generic structure, hybridization, and meaning shifts in the recovery of battered women / Carol L. Winkelmann

Conclusion / Christine Shearer-Cremean and Carol L. Winkelmann.