Dancing on the edge of silence : Steps towards articulating the experience of childhood rape

The experience and aftermath of male sexual violence is a lived reality for many girls and women. This qualitative study explores the subjective experience of childhood rape and its long-term impact focusing in particular on the implications of the silencing that continues to surround what is a deep...

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Main Author: Downing, Brenda Joy (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: 2008
In:Year: 2008
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Summary:The experience and aftermath of male sexual violence is a lived reality for many girls and women. This qualitative study explores the subjective experience of childhood rape and its long-term impact focusing in particular on the implications of the silencing that continues to surround what is a deeply-felt and traumatic experience with profound life-altering consequences. The study thematically and theoretically reads the subjective experience of childhood rape within current feminist understandings of rape as a crime of violence and form of social control through the use of evocative autoethnographic writing and an exegesis