@article{ref1,
title="Trauma, Feminism, and Addiction: Cultural and Clinical Lessons From Susan Gordon Lydon’s Take the Long Way Home: Memoirs of a Survivor",
journal="Traumatology",
year="2009",
author="Muzak, Joanne",
volume="15",
number="4",
pages="24-34",
abstract="This article explores second-wave feminist Susan Gordon Lydon’s 1993 memoir, Take the Long Way Home: Memoirs of a Survivor as a historical document whose resonances remain relevant for people working in the multidisciplinary field of trauma studies. Lydon’s memoir illustrates what are arguably the most significant legacies of second-wave feminism’s consciousness-raising and its propagation of the notion that the personal is political: the feminist reconceptualization of trauma to include women’s everyday experiences of interpersonal violence and the emergence of survivor discourse. The article demonstrates that Lydon’s conceptualization of her addiction as a response to trauma reflects three key feminist contributions to trauma theory: the expansion of the conventional concept of trauma to include women’s everyday and ongoing experiences; out of this expansion, the development of the concept of &quot;insidious trauma&quot;; and the depathologization of adaptive, &quot;normal responses&quot; to trauma.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1534-7656",
doi="10.1177/1534765609347547",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1534765609347547"
}