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Beschreibung
This important study covers a range of women's experiences with sexual violence over a lifetime. The women interviewed are asked to define how they develop strategies to resist, cope with, and survive sexual violence.
This important study covers a range of women's experiences with sexual violence over a lifetime. The women interviewed are asked to define how they develop strategies to resist, cope with, and survive sexual violence.
Über den Autor

Elizabeth A. Kelly CBE is the professor and director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University, the former head of the now-defunct Women's National Commission, and co-chair, along with Marai Larasi, of the End Violence Against Women Coalition.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vi

Guide to transcription of interviews vii

Introduction ix

1 'Sharing a particular pain': researching sexual violence 1

2 A central issue: sexual violence and feminist theory 20

3 The knowledge explosion: an overview of previous research 43

4 'It's happened to so many women': sexual violence as a continuum (1) 74

5 'It's everywhere': sexual violence as a continuum (2) 97

6 'I'm not sure what to call it but . . .': defining sexual violence 138

7 Victims or survivors?: resistance, coping and survival 159

8 'It leaves a mark': coping with the consequences of sexual violence 186

9 'I'll challenge it now wherever I see it': from individual survival to collective resistance 217

Notes 239

Select bibliography 266

Index 268

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
Genre: Importe, Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780745604633
ISBN-10: 0745604633
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kelly, Liz
Hersteller: Polity Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 218 x 139 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Liz Kelly
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.01.1991
Gewicht: 0,359 kg
Artikel-ID: 102580442

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