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Victims' Duties and Victim-Blaming: agency and accountability in the context of oppression

Many feminists insist on women's moral agency in the midst of their structural subordination. Among other things, moral agency entails moral responsibility: if victims of oppression are agents, then they have moral duties; if they have moral duties, then they can also be held accountable, including by being blamed. As feminists have long pointed out, however, 'victim-blaming' often is a tool of oppression. In this talk, I explore how to resolve tensions between these two intuitions by examining agency and accountability in the context of oppression.