Victims of rape are uniquely vulnerable for being blamed for their assault relative to victims
of other interpersonal crimes and thus much research has been conducted to understand …

This review examines the psychological impact of adult sexual assault through an ecological
theoretical perspective to understand how factors at multiple levels of the social ecology …

Black women in marginalized communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual
harassment, stalking and incest. Through the compelling stories of Black women who have …

BACKGROUND Traumatology, or the field of traumatic stress studies, has become a
dominant focus of interest in the mental health fields only in the past decade. Yet the origin …

Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Change and Social Worlds Page 1 Page 2 Telling Sexual Stories
The world has become cluttered with sexual stories. From child abuse scandals to lesbians …

Now with SAGE Publishing! The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and Justice offers a
thorough exploration of the theories and issues regarding the experiences of women and …

How can someone forget an event as traumatic as sexual abuse in childhood? people who
don't know firsthand may wonder, and many apparently do, or controversy wouldn't be …

Ten years ago, a few months after I had survived a nearly fatal sexual assault and attempted
murder in the south of France, I sat down at my computer to write about it for the first time and …

In the award-winning Just Sex? The Cultural Scaffolding of Rape, Nicola Gavey provides an
extensive commentary on the existing literature on rape, analysing recent research to …

Recent research documents the problem of sexual violence across communities, often
finding its causes to be embedded in community and cultural norms, thus demonstrating the …