Living with Paradoxes [electronic resource] : Victims of Sexual Violence and Their Conduct of Everyday Life /
Kappler, Karolin Eva.author.
How do women who have survived traumatic sexual violence cope with and manage their everyday lives? Karolin Eva Kappler analyses the everyday life of victims of sexual violence, combining the normalcy of their daily life with the overwhelming experience of rape and sexual abuse. Based on a qualitative study, the author detects five patterns which characterize the victims’ everyday coping practices and strategies. The grounded analysis of the interview material shows the fragility of the victims’ lives, depending on paradoxes which reduce their freedom of choice and which explain the individual and social invisibility of sexual violence. The book is valuable reading for academics and practitioners working in the fields of sociology, psychology, medicine, social work, and education.
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Index; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical framework: Sexual violence in the frame of everyday life; 2.1. Sexual violence in the universe of violence; 2.1.1. Principal distinctions: aggressiveness, aggression, violence and trauma; 2.1.2. Different types of gendered violence; 2.1.3. An intimate relationship: sexuality and power; 2.1.4. Sexual violence - conceptual definitions; 2.1.5. Multiple forms of sexual violence; 2.2. Everyday life as a theoretical approach toward a microsociological understanding of sexual violence; 2.2.1. Introduction to everyday life
2.2.2. A systemic approach to everyday life: the Conduct of Everyday Life3. Overview of the current state of research: sexual violence and society; 3.1. Sexual violence in numbers: prevalence data and comparison; 3.1.1. On quantifying violence; 3.1.2. National prevalence data and their limitations; 3.2. Sexual violence and its individual and social dimensions; 3.2.1. The historic evolution of sexual violence; 3.2.2. Causal models on sexual violence; 3.2.3. Individual and social consequences of sexual violence; 3.3. Some victimological words on sexual violence
3.3.1. The victim - aggressor relation3.3.2. Some victim classifications; 3.4. Research question and objectives; 4. Methodological approach; 4.1. Methodological design; 4.1.1. The methodological frame: Grounded Theory; 4.1.2. The in-depth interview; 4.1.3. The questionnaire guidelines; 4.2. Methodological implementation; 4.2.1. Field access and sampling; 4.2.2. The grounded analysis; 4.2.3. Excursus on subjectivity or the relationship between research question,interviewees, data and researcher; 5. Looking at how victims conduct everyday life; 5.1. Narrative moments
5.1.1. The narrative absence of everyday life5.1.2. The narrative absence of normality; 5.2. Some case reconstructions; 5.2.1. "Until December I still had a job;  then nearly everything was OK"; 5.2.2. "I have worked as much as I could. I have simply (-) like BEAMINGmyself away."; 5.2.3. "I think right now our everyday life is quite carefree"; 5.2.4. "Because if you, in the end, have had no freedom for 48 years, except for5 or 6 years in-between."; 5.3. Specific patterns of the interviewees' Conduct of Everyday Life; 5.3.1. Hyperactivity: between running away and bonding constraints
5.3.2. Retreat: between avoidance of the world and creation of an ideal one5.3.3. Time-out: between overwhelming memories and therapeutic confrontation; 5.3.4. Revelation: between visibility and exclusion; 5.3.5. Commitment: between integration and denunciation; 6. Specific moments of the interviewees' Conduct of Everyday Life; 6.1. Scenarios from the victims' everyday lives; 6.1.1. Work life: from pleasant to constraining forms of normalcy; 6.1.2. Family: origin, continuity and disruption; 6.1.3. Body: between silence and screaming; 6.2. The semantics of the victims' everyday lives
6.2.1. The meaning of knowledge about sexual violence
Dissertation University of Barcelona, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references.
How do women who have survived traumatic sexual violence cope with and manage their everyday lives? Karolin Eva Kappler analyses the everyday life of victims of sexual violence, combining the normalcy of their daily life with the overwhelming experience of rape and sexual abuse. Based on a qualitative study, the author detects five patterns which characterize the victims’ everyday coping practices and strategies. The grounded analysis of the interview material shows the fragility of the victims’ lives, depending on paradoxes which reduce their freedom of choice and which explain the individual and social invisibility of sexual violence. The book is valuable reading for academics and practitioners working in the fields of sociology, psychology, medicine, social work, and education.
Sociology.
Sociology, general.
Gender Studies.