Coping with Rape: Critical Perspectives on Consciousness
- 1 March 1984
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Imagination, Cognition and Personality
- Vol. 3 (3) , 249-267
- https://doi.org/10.2190/1f1e-kuvh-6t3k-dpn8
Abstract
Traditional psychological prescriptions for coping with injustice rest on a variety of assumptions which ignore the lived experiences of most women, especially those who are poor or working class, whose lives are embedded in a network of relationships that need be considered in their coping. This article, through a dialogue between the author, a rape counselor, and a woman who has survived rape, provides an analysis of the class, race and gender biases woven into the Taking-Control-Yields-Coping formulations.Keywords
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