Putting Feminism to Work Theorising Sexual Violence, Trauma and Subjectivity

“This work brings the insights of practice and theory together to understand how sexual assault services think about and use feminist knowledges. In illuminating the intertwined and complex lived relationships between ‘bodies, emotions, and institutions’ to enhance our responses to those who have ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Egan, Suzanne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2020, 2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020
Subjects:
Sex
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2. Rape: from ‘normal’ adult sexuality to gendered power and violence
  • 3. Sexual assault as trauma: Producing trauma as a feminist knowledge/practice
  • 4. From the incest taboo to the ‘adult survivor’: The production of child sexual assault as a feminist issue
  • 5. Trauma and the adult survivor
  • 6. Male victims, institutional abuse and ‘trauma informed care’
  • 7. Conclusion.