Research - sexual abuse

Women, Violence and Male Power (1995)

Hester, Kelly & Radford (Editors)

Open University Press; ISBN: 0335195067

Making public the issue of sexual violence - men's violence to women and children - has been a major feminist success story of the past couple of decades. This book gives an important insight into the new issues and questions that have become central to our understanding of sexual violence and abuse, and the new directions in which research in this area has developed. The authors explore differences in women's experiences and how these relate to different ways of coping with men's violence.

Sexual Abuse in Childhood (1994)

Kelly, Regan & Burton

Sage Publications Ltd; ISBN: 0803987099

Surviving Sexual Violence (1989)

Kelly

University of Minnesota Press; ISBN: 0816617538

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. Drawing on feminist theory, developing a critique of male research and quoting extensively from the women interviewed, it develops 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. 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. In highlighting the ways in which the media, the criminal justice system and even the "helping" professions contribute to the trivialization of sexual violence, she demonstrates the necessity of women organizing collectively to end this suffering.

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