Women's experiences of victimizing sexualization, Part II: Community and longer term personal impacts.
This is the second of a two-part article describing the results of a qualitative study on women's experiences of victimizing sexualization. Ten adult women described their experiences of harmful learning about themselves as female and sexual. A four-part thematic description of women's experiences of victimizing sexualization was derived. This article reports on two of the major categories: community and cultural characteristics and longer term personal impacts. Findings of the study support the feminist position that the enactment of gender itself at social and cultural levels sometimes places women at risk for victimization.
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School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire 54702-4004, USA. smithsk@uwec.edu
D000328:Adult; D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology*; D019058:Community Networks; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology*