Surviving child sexual abuse in women's artistic gymnastics
It's beautiful, because had I stayed in the past, I wouldn't have evolved as a person
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2378841 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Natalie Barker-Ruchti (0000-0002-3918-7904, Örebro University, corresponding author), Valeria Varea (0000-0003-3572-4976, Edith Cowan University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 660-678 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10126902231218180 |
| OpenAlex | W4389376210 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 54 |
The USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal raised global awareness about child sexual abuse (CSA) in women's artistic gymnastics. The ensuing media coverage also centre-staged victims' survivorship stories, a process that for many moved from dissociating, recognising and disclosing CSA to feeling comfort when connecting with survivors and accepting CSA as part of their life history. However, scholarship on what survivorship from CSA in sport entails, and importantly, what it means to athletes, is limited. In this article, we frame the survival of CSA using Arthur Frank's socio-narratological conceptualisation of people being able to process the devastating consequences of a life-threatening and/or a life-altering event, and present the survivorship stories of two former gymnasts, Maria and Lucia (pseudonyms). For these two women, survivorship was facilitated by hearing others' stories of sexual abuse, purposefully facing their CSA experiences and connecting with one another later in life to raise awareness about sexual abuse in sport. Thus, in addition to presenting Maria and Lucia's stories for the purpose of providing CSA victims with a survivorship narrative, we outline and reflect on the role hearing and telling stories have in CSA survivorship
Art · Athletes · Feeling · Literature · Narrative · Poison control · Political science · Scholarship · Sexual abuse · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Survivorship curve · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport Psychology and Performance · Sports injuries and prevention · Sports, Gender, and Society
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |