Surviving Wife Rape

How Women Define and Cope With the Violence

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12435720
AutoresRaquel Kennedy Bergen (St. Joseph's University New York, autor de correspondencia)
Año1995
Volumen1
Número2
Páginas117-138
Fecha de publicación1995-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077801295001002002
PMID12295407
OpenAlexW2119866451
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas15

This article explores how women define their experiences of wife rape and cope with the violence. Drawing on interviews with 35 survivors of wife rape, the stages through which women pass in coping with the violence—much like Mills's (1985) model for battered women—are described. These stages include entering a violent relationship, managing the violence, experiencing a loss of self, redefining the violence, ending the violence, and recovering from the trauma. Particular attention is given to understanding how women manage the violence and redefine their experiences as rape

Coping (psychology · Criminology · Domestic violence · Injury prevention · Marital relationship · Medical emergency · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Political science · Sexual violence · Suicide prevention · Wife · Clinical Psychology · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology