Playing the Victim: How the Powerful Deny and Attack Survivors of Violence, from Domestic Abuse to Genocide

Journalist 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

Who has the right to their own body? Who has the right to self-defense? Who gets to walk away?

From 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: DARVO...