What Happened to Me? Ambiguity and Surety in Narratives of Intoxicated Sexual Assault
Kari Stefansen,
Gerd Marie Solstad,
Rikke Tokle
Abstract:Intoxicated sexual assault is the most common type of sexual assault but is rarely unpacked as a social phenomenon. Our analysis represents a novel approach to opening the broad category of intoxicated sexual assaults for further theorisation and identifies some of the social mechanisms that underlie victims’ sensemaking in the aftermath of such assaults. Drawing on qualitative interviews with female victims, we present a typology of four experientially different assault situations: ‘manipulative assault’, ‘op… Show more
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