Survivors, Liars, and Unfit Minds: Rhetorical Impossibility and Rape Trauma Disclosure

Larson, Stephanie R.

doi:10.1111/hypa.12435

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“…Likewise, research on the stigma of mental illness highlights that people assume those with mental health problems are confused, unreliable, and untruthful (Corrigan & Bink, 2005). Larson (2018) argued that rape myths and mental illness stigma put survivors with mental health disabilities in “impossible situation when attempting to disclose sexual assault” (p. 681) and they are likely to be disbelieved and unsupported for multiple, intersecting reasons. This is a painful, untenable situation for survivors with disabilities because family, friends, and partners are usually the first people survivors disclose to (Ullman, 2010), yet they may be unprepared to respond supportively.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting sexual assault survivors with disabilities: Tracing disclosure and referral pathways to postassault health care services.

Campbell¹,

Javorka²,

Gregory³

et al. 2021

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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National epidemiological data indicate that nearly 4 in 10 victims of recent sexual assaults have physical, cognitive/developmental, or mental health disabilities, which can make navigating postassault help seeking more challenging. To streamline services, many communities have created sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) programs for comprehensive health care, crisis intervention, medical forensic evidence collection, victim advocacy, and legal referrals. SANE programs are recommended as the national best practice for postassault care, but there is virtually no U.S.-based research on whether survivors with disabilities seek these services. The present study sought to identify the disclosure and referral pathways that successfully connected sexual assault survivors with disabilities to SANE programs for postassault care. Forensic nurses in one midwestern state recorded information about all adult sexual assault patients (N = 755) who sought care during a 9-month window of data collection. Survivors with disabilities were significantly less likely than those who did not have disabilities to disclose to informal support providers (e.g., family, friends) and those individuals were unlikely to suggest to survivors with disabilities that they seek postassault health care. Survivors with disabilities were significantly more likely than survivors who did not have disabilities to disclose to formal help sources and to be referred to SANE programs by other formal community services, typically the police. A strong referral network from law enforcement to SANE programs is important, but survivors who do not wish to pursue criminal investigation need reliable pathways to postassault health care. Strategies

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting sexual assault survivors with disabilities: Tracing disclosure and referral pathways to postassault health care services.

Campbell¹,

Javorka²,

Gregory³

et al. 2021

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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“…Skenandore and Bladow (2018) analyzed The Round House and found storytelling a subtle way to heal and move away from violence and pain. Similarly, Larson (2018) discussed that the young rape victim in Gay's (2017) rape narrative, Hunger recovered in her postassault life but never lived her normal life again; however, her narrative is a source of motivation for rape victims struggling and fighting with hardships in their post-assault lives. Most importantly, the rape narratives become a source of self-invention, offering new opportunities to uncover violent human life experiences (Gilmore, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Nath and Pratihari (2018) studied that the perpetrators kill the victims outright to conceal their identity and escape punishment. Remarkably, Larson (2018) instantiated that these acts of silencing rape victims are part of traditional patriarchal patterns in which the raped women and children are forcibly made disabled. Since language shapes, everyday life, the language of rape narratives should be explored to know the horrors of rape and the painful experiences of rape.…”

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A Narrative Structure Analysis of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones

Ahmad¹

2023

JSSH

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This article analyses how rape narratives provide insights into the conceptualization of rape, trauma, abuse, and recovery of rape victims. Using William Labov’s theoretical model of narrative structure analysis and Michael Halliday’s transitivity system, the article examines Alice Sebold’s rape narrative, The Lovely Bones (henceforth TLB). The analysis shows that the narrative structure of rape narratives helps understand deeper meanings and underpinned concepts of rape. Such meanings and concepts reveal the real horrors of rape, the gravity of the pain and suffering of rape victims, and the ways of their eventual recovery. Despite its limitations to only TLB, the article offers potential alternative approaches to examine rape narratives to uncover the deeper meanings and suggests new concepts of rape and sexual violence affecting the perspectives to be taken while dealing with rape in general and rape victims being women and children in particular.

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“…Some victims of sexual assault have also begun rebuffing ‘compulsory survivorship’ (Larson, 2018). They consider the imposition of survivorship to be another manifestation of blaming the victim.…”

Section: Compulsory Survivorshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Re)Made in America: Survivorship after the Shoah

Cole

2021

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Until the l970s, ‘survivor’ referred predominantly to individuals who outlived others in the aftermath of disaster, or stood to inherit the remains of an estate; it was not imbued with evaluative connotations. In the United States today, however, survivorship abounds with positive meanings. This transvaluation rests on three intersecting trajectories that together transformed survivorship from denoting that one sustained or was spared a hardship to signifying a superior social status. The first trajectory follows the aftermath of the Shoah, when survivors acquired moral authority as victims of and public witnesses to a new violation, ‘crimes against humanity’. The second tracks the stigmatization of the term ‘victim’ in American public discourse. A consequence of struggles over the welfare state and other progressive policies, victimhood is now associated less with specific harms or injuries, and more with the supposed negative attributes of the victim herself. The third traces how survivorship became integral to the recuperative strategies of new therapeutic disciplines addressing the traumatized – from war veterans and rape victims to cancer patients. These three processes coalesced to create and legitimize a hierarchical opposition between ‘victims’ and ‘survivors’, transforming these terms into political categories and emblems of personal and group identity. In this essay, I argue that the victim/survivor binary constitutes one juncture where neoliberalism converges with Trump-era populism.

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Survivors, Liars, and Unfit Minds: Rhetorical Impossibility and Rape Trauma Disclosure

Cited by 11 publications

References 30 publications

Supporting sexual assault survivors with disabilities: Tracing disclosure and referral pathways to postassault health care services.

Supporting sexual assault survivors with disabilities: Tracing disclosure and referral pathways to postassault health care services.

A Narrative Structure Analysis of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones

(Re)Made in America: Survivorship after the Shoah

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