The Sexual Abuse Paradigm in Historical Perspective: Passivity and Emotion in Mid-Twentieth-Century America

Satter, Beryl

doi:10.1353/sex.2004.0014

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“…The repressed memory controversy of the 1980s was a flashpoint. Feminist therapists like Judith Herman sought to capture the evidence of experience for traumatic effects of sexual abuse in counseling sessions, but these therapists were then often accused of embedding false memories and personalities in suggestible clients (Hacking, 1995; Satter, 2003). Feminist psychologist Mary Koss’s work surveying the prevalence of date rape on college campuses, which brought both the concept of date rape and the “1 in 4” statistic into wide circulation, was vociferously challenged on both scientific and political grounds (Rutherford, 2014).…”

Section: Final Thoughts: Interdisciplinarity Publicity and Expertisementioning

confidence: 99%

Feminism and/in/as psychology: The public sciences of sex and gender.

Rutherford¹,

Pettit²

2015

History of Psychology

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In our introduction to this special issue on the histories of feminism, gender, sexuality, and the psy-disciplines, we propose the tripartite framework of "feminism and/in/as psychology" to conceptualize the dynamics of their conjoined trajectories and relationship to gender and sexuality from the late 19th through the late 20th centuries. "Feminism and psychology" highlights the tensions between a political movement and a scientific discipline and the efforts of participants in each to problematize the other. "Feminism in psychology" refers to those historical moments when self-identified feminists intervened in psychology to alter its content, methodologies, and populations. We propose, as have others, that these interventions predate the 1970s, the period most commonly associated with the "founding" of feminist psychology. Finally, "feminism as psychology/psychology as feminism" explores the shared ground between psychology and feminism-the conceptual, methodological, and (more rarely) epistemological moments when psychology and feminism made common cause. We suggest that the traffic between feminism and psychology has been persistent, continuous, and productive, despite taking different historically and geographically contingent forms.

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Section: Final Thoughts: Interdisciplinarity Publicity and Expertisementioning

confidence: 99%

Feminism and/in/as psychology: The public sciences of sex and gender.

Rutherford¹,

Pettit²

2015

History of Psychology

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“…Feminists had not always made this argument. Indeed, earlier generations of feminists were keen to portray women as resilient, not vulnerable, in the face of sexual violence (see Satter, 2003; Haag, 1996). Social purity and temperance campaigns of the late 19th century, for instance, hoped to encourage male continence and end male brutality towards women.…”

Section: ‘Bad Events’ and Pathological Psychiatric Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These first-wave feminists placed great faith in the ballot and legal reform. Even as late as the 1960s, feminists were prone to argue that ‘rape was not the worse thing that could happen to a woman’ (Satter, 2003: 451).…”

Section: ‘Bad Events’ and Pathological Psychiatric Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sexual Violence, Bodily Pain, and Trauma: A History

Bourke

2012

Theory, Culture & Society

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Psychological trauma is a favoured trope of modernity. It has become commonplace to assume that all 'bad events' - and particularly those which involve violence - have a pathological effect on the sufferer's psyche, as well as that of the perpetrators. This essay explores the ways victims of rape and sexual assault were understood in psychiatric, psychological, forensic, and legal texts in Britain and America from the 19th to the late 20th century. It argues that, unlike most other 'bad events', which were incorporated within trauma narratives from the 1860s, the ascription of psychological trauma was only applied to rape victims a century later. Why and what were the consequences?

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“…A renewed interest in pursuing such social policies after the war led to greater vigilance about child welfare and the family milieu. 116 Feminists and psychotherapists proved to be instrumental in making the question of sexual abuse a topic for public policy discussions, 117 while social workers became more active in identifying and monitoring "problem families" and "at-risk" young people. 118 In fact, more than any other group of professionals, it was social workers who came to serve as the bridge between social services and criminal law.…”

Section: The Welfare State and The Age Of Mass Consumerismmentioning

confidence: 99%