Young women's management of victim and survivor identities

Dados Bibliográficos

ID15098719
AutoresGeorgia Ovenden (Western Sydney University, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume14
Fascículo8
Páginas941-954
Data de publicação2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCulture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13691058.2012.710762
PMID22943483
OpenAlexW1976068242
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas28

Images of child sexual abuse survivors have been strongly mediated by professional and self-help ideologies that espouse 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' responses to trauma. Drawing on interviews taken with five self-identified survivors of child sexual abuse, this paper maps the impact of psychological and popular discourses on victim/survivor identities and, in particular, the centrality of themes such as disclosure and 'healing' in accounts from survivors. Investment in these particular versions of recovery has operated to shift the focus of the survivor movement away from its political beginnings, such that private healing has replaced public discontent. As the excerpts from survivors in this paper suggest, the language commonly captured in both therapeutic and popular accounts of trauma may guide and delimit the subject positions available to survivors. Utilising the concept of 'wounded attachment', this paper identifies some of the outcomes associated with internalised notions of healing for survivors, as well as the dilemmas that might be impeding disclosure

Centrality · Child sexual abuse · Developmental psychology · Ideology · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Sexual abuse · Subject (documents · Suicide prevention · Child Abuse and Trauma · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology