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Living with Paradoxes

Victims of Sexual Violence and Their Conduct of Everyday Life

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  1. Karolin Eva Kappler
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  • Victims of Sexual Violence and their Conduct of Everyday Life

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-10
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  2. Introduction

    • Karolin Eva Kappler
    Pages 11-17

  3. Theoretical framework: Sexual violence in the frame of everyday life

    • Karolin Eva Kappler
    Pages 19-47

  4. Overview of the current state of research: sexual violence and society

    • Karolin Eva Kappler
    Pages 49-85

  5. Methodological approach

    • Karolin Eva Kappler
    Pages 87-112

  6. Looking at how victims conduct everyday life

    • Karolin Eva Kappler
    Pages 113-191

  7. Specific moments of the interviewees’ Conduct of Everyday Life

    • Karolin Eva Kappler
    Pages 193-234

  8. Conclusion

    • Karolin Eva Kappler
    Pages 235-238

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 239-271
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About this book

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.

About the author

Karolin Eva Kappler, Ph.D., is a researcher at the Information, Technology and Society group of Barcelona Media – Center of Innovation and a lecturer at the University of Barcelona and the Open University of Catalonia.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Living with Paradoxes

  • Book Subtitle: Victims of Sexual Violence and Their Conduct of Everyday Life

  • Authors: Karolin Eva Kappler

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-94003-8

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-531-18337-4Published: 30 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-531-94003-8Published: 06 October 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 271

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Gender Studies

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