Surviving Sexual Violence Kelly Liz
Surviving Sexual Violence Kelly Liz Women's awareness of the threat and reality of sexual violence is now perhaps more than ever publicly acknowledged. This new study, based on in-depth interviews…
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Surviving Sexual Violence Kelly Liz
Women's awareness of the threat and reality of sexual violence is now perhaps more than ever publicly acknowledged. This new study, based on in-depth interviews with 60 women, is the first to cover the experience of a range of forms of sexual violence over women's lifetimes. Yet this fact continues to be almost wholly ignored.
The author stresses the importance for all women of recognizing the incidents of sexual violence in their lives and seeing themselves and other women as survivors rather than victims. Drawing on feminist theory, developing a critique of male research and quoting extensively from the women interviewed, it developes feminist thought in several key areas: the similarities and differences between forms of sexual violence; the ways women define their experiences; and the strategies women use in resisting, coping with and surviving sexual violence. In highlighting the
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