Sexual victims - supporting women's sexual and reproductive choices and wellbeing

Impact ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (8) ◽  
pp. 46-48
Author(s):  
Risa Koyake
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Rape Victims ◽  
Women's College ◽  
Reproductive Freedom ◽  
Female Victims ◽  
Female Survivors ◽  
The Us ◽  
Expert Support

In Japan, support systems for female victims of sexual violence are lacking. Assistant Professor Risa Koyake, Faculty of Contemporary Social Studies, Department of Contemporary Children, Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts, Japan, is working to ensure these women have the support they need and deserve. Her work is particularly focused on women in Japan and the US who are pregnant as a result of sexual violence. Abortion tends to be the assumed preference but the choice of whether or not to have an abortion is tied to the sexual and reproductive freedom of the victim and some of these women wish to give birth. Unfortunately, support is particularly lacking for female survivors of sexual violence who wish to give birth. In her work, Koyake conducts consultations and conversations with survivors of rape. She has experience as a volunteer at a group for survivors of domestic violence so is used to having sensitive and challenging discussions with women seeking expert support and guidance. Koyake's current project is entitled 'The Choice of Adoption or Abortion Among Women Pregnant as a Result of Sexual Violence in Japan and America', and involves looking at existing support and options for women in Japan who are pregnant as a result of sexual violence, ultimately seeking to build on exisiting support to ensure that it is adequate, particularly for rape victims who choose to give birth.

Prevalence and Characteristics of Sexual Violence in the Netherlands, the Risk of Revictimization and Pregnancy: Results From a National Population Survey

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 592-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stans de Haas ◽  
Willy van Berlo ◽  
Floor Bakker ◽  
Ine Vanwesenbeeck
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Rape Victims ◽  
Male Victims ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Female Victims ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
International Body ◽  
Experienced Adult

Prevalence figures on sexual violence among a representative sample of both men and women were not yet available for the Netherlands. The aim of this study, therefore, was to investigate the prevalence of sexual violence in the Netherlands and to add these figures to the international body of knowledge. Experiences of sexual violence during lifetime, before the age of 16 and in the year before the start of the study were measured. In addition, types of sexual violence were examined, as were the characteristics of the perpetrators. Lastly, revictimization and pregnancy as a result of rape experiences among the victims were investigated. Data were generated from a population survey on sexual health. The sample consisted of more than 6,000 men and women between the age of 15 and 70 years old. Prevalence rates as high as 21% for men and 56% for women were found. Fifty percent of the female victims and 30% of the male victims of child sexual abuse had experienced adult victimization. Of the female rape victims, 7% became pregnant as a consequence of rape. In the Netherlands, as elsewhere, the prevention of sexual violence should be prioritized.

Somatization Symptoms among Female Survivors of Sexual Violence: A Multi-Site Investigation

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Edwards ◽  
Megan Crawford ◽  
Erin Tansill ◽  
Megan Murphy ◽  
Christine Gidycz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Site Investigation ◽  
Female Survivors

Gender, narrative and affect: Top-down politics of commemoration in post-genocide Rwanda

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Mannergren Selimovic
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Present State ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Rape Victims ◽  
Top Down ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Memory Politics ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Specific Category ◽  
Key Sites

This article takes an interest in gendered memory politics and addresses the dearth of research on gender and commemoration in relation to the genocide in Rwanda. It analyses elite-produced gendered narratives at key sites of commemoration and investigates their affective role in constituting the post-genocide Rwandan state. Through a methodological approach of ‘the situated gaze’, three central observations are made. First, women are mourned as a specific category of rape victims and mothers. Second, women’s experiences of sexual violence are at the same time censored and de-individualized. Third, no other experiences, beyond being a victim, are taken into account. The article finds that the top-down affective memory politics circumscribes the role women played during and after the genocide, and restricts their agency within the present state project of ‘national unity and reconciliation’.

Efficacy of clinical breast examination in chest-irradiated female survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma (HL).

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 10028-10028
Author(s):  
Florence Lennie Wong ◽  
Janie M. Lee ◽  
Wendy M. Leisenring ◽  
Joseph Philip Neglia ◽  
Rebecca M. Howell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Breast Examination ◽  
Female Survivors ◽  
Breast Examination ◽  
Life Years ◽  
The Us ◽  
Clinical Breast ◽  
Childhood Cancer Survivor Study ◽  
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Mri ◽  
Simulated Cohort

10028 Background: Female survivors of childhood HL treated with ≥10 Gy of chest radiation are at high risk for breast cancer (BC). The Children’s Oncology Group (COG) guidelines recommend CBE annually starting at puberty and then semiannually from age 25, plus lifetime annual mammography (MAM) and breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) starting 8y after chest radiation or age 25, whichever is later. While imaging-based screening recommendations are largely consistent with US guidelines for women at high BC risk, only the COG guidelines recommend CBE. The benefits of lifetime CBE starting from puberty for life in chest-irradiated HL survivors is unknown. Methods: Life-years (LYs) and lifetime BC mortality risk were estimated from a simulated cohort of 5-million HL survivors using the data from 5y female survivors of HL in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS) treated with ≥10 Gy of chest radiation. The simulated cohort underwent annual MAM+MRI from age 25 for life, with and without annual CBE from age 11 (presumed age of puberty) to age 24 and with and without semiannual CBE from age 25 for life with 100% adherence. BC included in-situ and invasive BC. Treatment-related BC incidence and non-BC mortality risks were estimated from the CCSS data. Risks at age <25 were extrapolated from the CCSS estimates while risks beyond age 50 were extrapolated additionally using the US population rates. CBE sensitivity (17.8%, in-situ and invasive BC) and specificity (98%) and MAM+MRI sensitivity (84.2-86.0%, in-situ; 96.7-97.1%, invasive) and specificity (75.3%) were obtained from the medical literature. Results: The CCSS cohort included 1057 female HL survivors. BC (all invasive) developed in three patients at age <25 (ages: 23, 24, 24). In the simulated cohort receiving no screening, lifetime BC risk was 40.8% and BC mortality was 17.5%. HL survivors around age 50 were at a 7.4-fold higher risk of developing BC and a 5.2-fold higher risk of non-BC mortality when compared with the general population. Compared to no annual CBE for ages 11-24y, undergoing annual CBE did not increase gains in LYs or reduce lifetime BC mortality relative to no screening (Table). Among those who survived to age ≥25, undergoing semiannual CBE from age 25 for life compared to no semiannual CBE also resulted in little gain in LYs or reduction in lifetime BC mortality relative to no screening. Conclusions: Lifetime CBE starting at puberty in conjunction with MAM+MRI appears to add little survival benefits compared with no CBE, suggesting that COG guidelines may be revised without adverse effect on long-term outcomes for chest-irradiated female survivors of childhood HL.[Table: see text]

scholarly journals CHARACTERIZATION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN A STATE FROM THE SOUTHEAST REGION OF BRAZIL

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidieine Gonçalves Kataguiri ◽  
Lúcia Marina Scatena ◽  
Leiner Resende Rodrigues ◽  
Sybelle de Souza Castro
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
White Female ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Female Victims ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
Correspondence Factor Analysis ◽  
Chi Square Test

ABSTRACT Objective: to verify the association between victims of sexual violence and the sociodemographic aspects related to exposure in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Method: an ecological study, where the database of the Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação, SINAN provided by the Minas Gerais State Health Department was used. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the chi-square test, and Multiple Correspondence Factor Analysis (p≤0.05). Results: stepfathers were the predominant offenders, associated with schooling from 0 to 4th grade, brown-skinned ethnicity, and the residence as place of occurrence. When the offender was the father, there was association with an unknown place of occurrence, followed by the residence, abuse of male children between 0 and 9 years old, and living in municipalities from 200 to 500 thousand inhabitants. Stranger aggressors were associated with white female victims aged 15 years old or over, schooling between 5th grade and higher education, single act of sexual violence, in which physical violence was used and occurrence on public roads. Conclusion: sexual violence affects mainly women and children, the former being attacked on public roads and the latter in their own home environment by a known offender.

scholarly journals Centering the Margins: Knowledge Production in the Introductory Archaeology Course

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kylie Quave ◽  
Shannon Fie ◽  
AmySue Qing Qing Greiff ◽  
Drew Alis Agnew
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Students Of Color ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
Course Structure ◽  
Student Reflection ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
Full Picture

Teaching introductory archaeology courses in US higher education typically falls short in two important ways: the courses do not represent the full picture of who contributes to reconstructing the past and do not portray the contemporary and future relevance of the archaeological past. In this paper, we use anti-colonial and decolonial theories to explain the urgency of revising the introductory archaeology curriculum for promoting equity in the discipline and beyond. We detail the pedagogical theories we employed in revising an introductory archaeology course at a small liberal arts college in the US and the specific changes we made to course structure, content, and teaching strategies. To examine the impacts on enrolled students and on who chose to enroll in the revised archaeology curriculum, we analyze student reflection essays and enrollment demographics. We find that students developed more complex understandings of the benefits and harms of archaeological knowledge production and could articulate how to address archaeology’s inequities. We also found that enrollment in archaeology courses at the college shifted to include greater proportions of students of color. These results support the notion that introductory archaeology courses should be substantially and continually revised.

Sweeping Out Home Economics: Curriculum Reform at Connecticut College for Women, 1952–1962

2011 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-388
Author(s):  
Paul Philip Marthers
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Women's Colleges ◽  
Home Economics ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Women's College ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Twentieth Century America

At the moment of its founding in 1911, Connecticut College for Women exhibited a curricular tension between an emphasis on the liberal arts, which mirrored the elite men's and women's colleges of the day, and vocational aspects, which made it a different type of women's college, one designed to prepare women for the kind of lives they would lead in twentieth-century America. Connecticut was a women's college that simultaneously embraced the established brand of education practiced by its prestigious Seven Sister neighbors and forged its own path by integrating elements of home economics, municipal housekeeping, and professional/clerical training into its academic program. For forty years Connecticut College for Women achieved a balance between those two opposing poles of its curriculum.

Decoding Black Iconography

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alix Pierre
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Women Artists ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
First Year ◽  
Women's College ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
Spelman College

The paper examines how the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, the only one in the country dedicated to the work of African descended women artists, is used as a pedagogical tool in the interdisciplinary African Diaspora and the World course to help students further explore the depiction and visualization of diasporan aesthetics during their matriculation. From a visual culture perspective, this is a critical examination of the process of looking among non-art major college goers. The emphasis of the analysis is on the perceiver or the “educand” as Paulo Freire puts it, and ways she is trained to visually represent Africa and its diasporas. The article discusses how the subjects, first year students at a black liberal arts women’s college, are taught to construct meaning from and respond to imagery made by women artists from the diaspora. At the heart of the study is the response of the perceivers, through an Audio Narrative assignment, to artefacts that communicate an African and Afro-descended iconography. 

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