Confession, psychology and the shaping of subjectivity through interviews with victims of female-perpetrated sexual violence.

IF 0.7 Q3 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Subjectivity Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1057/s41286-021-00117-0
Sherianne Kramer, Brett Bowman
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Female-perpetrated sexual abuse (FSA) is often seen as rare and of little consequence. Confessing to being a victim of FSA is infrequent and often met with incredulity. Identifying as such a victim is thus often a response to an incitement to speak in the mode of confession. Interviews producing the possibility for such confessions were conducted with ten self-identified South African FSA victims and then analysed using a Foucauldian approach. In identifying as victims of FSA the participants drew on psychologised, gendered accounts of damage reflected in trauma, revictimisation, memory loss, the cycle of abuse and deviance. An analysis of these accounts demonstrates how confessional sites, such as the (psychological) interview, anchor victim worthiness in damage so that 'non-normative' victims of violence are able to see themselves in sexual violence discourse as forever compromised subjects whose healing requires rethinking the relationship between gender, sexuality, and violence in contemporary South Africa.

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通过对女性性暴力受害者的访谈,了解供述、心理和主体性的形成。
女性犯下的性虐待(FSA)通常被认为是罕见的,后果很小。承认自己是金融服务管理局的受害者并不常见,而且常常遭到怀疑。因此,认定自己是这样的受害者往往是对以忏悔方式说话的煽动的一种反应。对10名自认是南非FSA受害者的访谈产生了这种供词的可能性,然后用福柯式的方法进行了分析。在确定自己是FSA的受害者时,与会者借鉴了心理上的、性别上的关于创伤、再次受害、失忆、虐待和越轨行为循环所反映的损害的叙述。对这些描述的分析表明,忏悔网站,如(心理)访谈,如何在损害中锚定受害者的价值,以便“非规范”暴力受害者能够在性暴力话语中将自己视为永远妥协的主体,其治疗需要重新思考当代南非性别,性行为和暴力之间的关系。
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Subjectivity
Subjectivity SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: Subjectivity is an international, transdisciplinary journal examining the social, cultural, historical and material processes, dynamics and structures of human experience. As topic, problem and resource, notions of subjectivity are relevant to many disciplines, including cultural studies, sociology, social theory, geography, anthropology and psychology. The journal brings together scholars from across the social sciences and the humanities, publishing high-quality theoretical and empirical papers that address the processes by which subjectivities are produced, explore subjectivity as a locus of social change, and examine how emerging subjectivities remake our social worlds.
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