{"product_id":"playing-the-victim-isbn-9798889844020","title":"Playing the Victim","description":"\u003cb\u003eJournalist Kylie Cheung delivers an urgent, incisive look at how abusers—from empires to intimate partners—use the same gaslighting playbook to oppress victims, silence their voice, and stay in power\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWho has the right to their own body? Who has the right to self-defense? \u003ci\u003eWho gets to walk away? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the genocide in Gaza to the state-sanctioned control of women’s bodies, Kylie Cheung confronts the most urgent moral and political crises of our time through an incisive, illuminating lens: \u003cb\u003eDARVO—Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile DARVO originated in the psychology of domestic abuse and intimate partner violence, Cheung shows how it’s deployed en masse, at every level—and how it can become the blueprint for empire itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the spectacle of Depp v. Heard to horrors perpetrated by Israeli prison guards, Cheung exposes how abusers both individual and institutional flip the script and perform victimhood to justify domination. With unflinching clarity, \u003ci\u003ePlaying the Victim\u003c\/i\u003e traces how these tactics shape everything from media propaganda and imperial warfare to anti-feminist backlash, transphobic legislation, and racialized state violence. Each chapter peels back another layer of the mirror-world machine that distorts oppressors into victims and twists resistance into crime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssential for anyone seeking to understand how power works in the 21st century—and at whose cost—this book is piercing, clear-eyed, and rigorously researched. Unpacking how domestic abuse, intimate partner violence, colonial violence, and capitalist cruelty function as interlocking systems of control, Cheung helps readers understand how power hides behind ersatz victimhood—and how this plays us all.\u003cb\u003eKylie Cheung\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist who reports on gender and power at the intersections of politics, culture, and state violence. She is the staff reporter on reproductive rights, health, and justice for \u003ci\u003eAbortion, Every Day\u003c\/i\u003e, and previously worked on staff at \u003ci\u003eJezebel\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of four books on feminist politics, including \u003ci\u003eCoercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSurvivor Injustice: State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy\u003c\/i\u003e. Her reporting and commentary have appeared in outlets such as \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTeen Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. A graduate of the University of Southern California, Cheung writes from Brooklyn, bringing an Asian American, feminist perspective to her work on reproductive justice and state power.","brand":"North Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532179386597,"sku":"NP9798889844020","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/playing-the-victim-isbn-9798889844020","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}