By Karolin Eva Kappler
How do girls who've survived aggravating sexual violence do something about and deal with their daily lives? Karolin Eva Kappler analyses the typical lifetime of sufferers of sexual violence, combining the normalcy in their lifestyle with the overpowering adventure of rape and sexual abuse. according to a qualitative learn, the writer detects 5 styles which signify the sufferers' daily coping practices and techniques. The grounded research of the interview fabric indicates the fragility of the sufferers' lives, looking on paradoxes which decrease their freedom of selection and which clarify the person and social invisibility of sexual violence. The booklet is effective analyzing for lecturers and practitioners operating within the fields of sociology, psychology, drugs, social paintings, and schooling.
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But, furthermore, and according to Giddens, sexuality should not be understood only as a drive which social forces have to contain. Rather, it is “an especially dense transfer point for relations of power”. It this sense, sexuality can be used as key point of social control by means of the energy, infused with power, which it generates (Giddens 1992, 18-19). Some constructivist authors – such as Guasch or Tiefer – argue that “sexuality is not natural”, in order to give salience to its wide normative system which regulates when, how, with whom and by which means reproduction takes place (or not) (Guasch 2000, 24).
We should also add that some approaches – linked to some psychoanalytic tendencies –, which interpret and declare sexual violence as the aggressor’s and victim’s satisfaction of sexual and masochistic desires, can be revealing, showing that sexual violence does not mean sexual contact in its narrow sense. Rather, it represents the frustrated necessity to show dominance, in which case the aggressors do not merely seek sexual satisfaction but the victims’ total submission, humiliation and degradation.
4. Sexual violence – conceptual definitions In this regard, I choose sexual violence as the central phenomenon of the present study, due to its specific social and historic range. Its individual and social consequences determine sexual violence as violence which has been perpetuated over centuries and is omnipresent at the social level. A more phenomenological approach to sexual violence – proposed by Sharon M. Wasco, an American psychologist (Wasco 2003) – suggests that sexual violence might have started long before and might project beyond the actual act of abuse, extending as far as social and cultural structures, permeating and influencing social cohesion.