Women’s Healing Journey From Intimate Partner Violence: Establishing Positive Sexuality

Bagwell-Gray, Meredith E.

doi:10.1177/1049732318804302

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“…Several women disclosed during their interviews that they had chosen to be celibate or had decided never to engage in sex with men. Bagwell-Gray has reported similar findings in her qualitative work around sexual healing after IPSV (Bagwell-Gray, 2019b), highlighting the challenges for women around reclaiming positive sexuality and learning to feel good about their bodies. I echo her call for practitioners and services to develop greater understandings around the specific sexual trauma experienced by IPSV survivors.…”

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confidence: 66%

“It Went to the Very Heart of Who I Was as a Woman”: The Invisible Impacts of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence

Tarzia

2020

Qual Health Res

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Intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) sits within the intersection of intimate partner violence and sexual violence. It is prevalent, yet poorly understood. Research consistently shows that IPSV is associated with many mental and physical health issues although the mental health aspects are often the most damaging. Despite this, there is poor understanding of the mechanisms through which IPSV causes trauma and poor mental health. To address this gap, I used interpretative phenomenological analysis of n = 38 in-depth interviews with women in Australia to explore their lived experiences of IPSV. The essence of IPSV was described as “Being attacked from the inside out” and comprised four themes. The first, “Shaken foundations,” described devastating betrayal and loss of trust. The second, “A different kind of damage,” suggested that sexual violence impacts women differently from physical or psychological violence in a relationship. The third theme, “It kills something inside you,” addressed the dehumanizing aspects of IPSV. The final theme, “Lingering scar tissue,” focused on the long-term impacts of IPSV on women’s sexuality and relationships. The findings of this study highlight the “invisible impacts” of IPSV, which may be the pathways through which it causes trauma.

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“It Went to the Very Heart of Who I Was as a Woman”: The Invisible Impacts of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence

Tarzia

2020

Qual Health Res

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“…If not, he told me not to.” In another example, one of co-occurring sexual assault and sexual abuse, a participant’s husband raped her without her diaphragm in place, resulting in pregnancy. As these examples show, the consequences associated with a partner’s reproductive control were unintended pregnancy as well as negative sexual health outcomes, including STIs, miscarriage, and endometriosis (Bagwell-Gray, 2018).…”

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“…This article reports on a subset of findings from a qualitative descriptive study of IPV and women’s sexual health (Bagwell-Gray, 2018). Qualitative description is a pragmatic approach to research with tenets rooted in naturalistic inquiry (Sandelowski, 2010).…”

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Women’s Experiences of Sexual Violence in Intimate Relationships: Applying a New Taxonomy

Bagwell-Gray

2019

J Interpers Violence

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How do women describe their experiences of sexual violence in their intimate relationships? In answering this question, the present article builds upon a newly developed taxonomy of intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV). Women with past or present intimate partner violence experience ( N = 28) were recruited from a domestic violence program and the community at large. Data were collected with semistructured, in-person interviews, audio recorded, and transcribed. As defined by the taxonomy, 27 women (96%) experienced intimate partner sexual abuse; 19 (68%) experienced intimate partner sexual coercion; 14 (50%) experienced intimate partner sexual assault; and two (7%) experienced intimate partner–forced sexual activity. Intimate partner sexual abuse was central to women’s experiences of IPSV. Common categories of sexual abuse were having sex outside of the relationship, controlling reproductive decisions, degrading with sexual criticism and insults, refusing communication, denying pleasure, and withholding sex. The types of IPSV did not typically occur in isolation; the taxonomy revealed a grouping pattern, with intimate partner sexual assault and intimate partner sexual coercion co-occurring with sexual abuse. Understanding the different types of IPSV as a comprehensive mechanism of sexual control is a meaningful way to conceptualize sexual violence in intimate relationships. The expanded taxonomy provides a useful therapeutic tool in helping women share and heal from these experiences.

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“…Furthermore, we suggest that as part of the methods section it is also of great importance that the method of reflexivity utilized within the research is presented with reference to the literature, describing how this was carried out by the researcher. Typically, researchers who mention reflexivity in the methods section, include a few sentences stating in general terms that reflexivity was applied in the research process (19,20). In contrast, including a short description of the practice of reflexivity, not in general terms but as it was carried out in the specific study, will allow the reader insight into how the researchers worked in order to ensure a rigorous research process and trustworthy results Secondly, we suggest that in the context of a study which applies reflexivity, the most appropriate way to present participants' accounts in the results section is with reference to participants as people, not as numbers.…”

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Qualitative research as reflexive process: a word limitationchallenge in qualitative medical research publications?

Busso

Leonardsen

2019

NSF

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Background: There is a general consensus across health related disciplines that reporting of qualitative research should address criteria such as researcher reflexivity. Reflexive practice is thus understood as integral to producing rigorous and trustworthy research outcomes. Nevertheless, many journals in the health context impose a strict word limitation on original research articles, which may hinder reporting such aspects of the research in an adequate manner. Objective: To explore the presentation of reflexivity in original qualitative research papers, highlighting the importance of including reflexive detail that would allow the reader to better assess the quality and rigor of a study. Results: The paper demonstrates ways in which the presentation of issues of reflexivity in regards to describing research procedure, data collection, analysis and interpretation of findings, can aid the reader's ability to make a thorough assessment of the credibility and rigor of a research study. Conclusion: This paper has explored the utility of reflexivity as a methodological tool in producing and presenting qualitative research that can be considered trustworthy and rigorous. We argue that the strict word limitation in some journals may not allow for adequately presenting information relating to reflexivity practices, inhibiting a thorough assessment of the quality and rigor of such research. Moreover, we suggest specific ways in which reflexivity may be incorporated into an original research paper in the face of a word limitation challenge

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Women’s Healing Journey From Intimate Partner Violence: Establishing Positive Sexuality

Cited by 17 publications

References 72 publications

“It Went to the Very Heart of Who I Was as a Woman”: The Invisible Impacts of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence

“It Went to the Very Heart of Who I Was as a Woman”: The Invisible Impacts of Intimate Partner Sexual Violence

Women’s Experiences of Sexual Violence in Intimate Relationships: Applying a New Taxonomy

Qualitative research as reflexive process: a word limitationchallenge in qualitative medical research publications?

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