TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Trauma, Feminism, and Addiction: Cultural and Clinical Lessons From Susan Gordon Lydon’s Take the Long Way Home: Memoirs of a Survivor
JO  - Traumatology
A1  - Muzak, Joanne
SP  - 24
EP  - 34
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
N2  - 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explores second-wave feminist Susan Gordon Lydon’s 1993 memoir, Take the Long Way Home: Memoirs of a Survivor as a historical document whose resonances remain relevant for people working in the multidisciplinary field of trauma studies.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 "insidious trauma"; and the depathologization of adaptive, "normal responses" to trauma.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 1534-7656
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1534765609347547
ID  - ref1
ER  -