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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 coping-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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Living with Paradoxes
• Subtitle: Victims of Sexual Violence and Their Conduct of Everyday Life
• Author: Karolin E. Kappler
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9783531183374
• ISBN: 3531183370
• ID: 01554521
• Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
• Weight: 329 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 148 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. September 2011

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