What is it about?
This article describes three different ways that service providers who participated in this study about woman-to-woman sexual assault understood this form of violence. Each of the three perspectives has its own strengths and weaknesses.
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Why is it important?
In reading this article, service providers and others will be able to assess the strengths and weaknesses of their own perspectives, and reflect, for example, on how their perspectives may function to support or silence survivors.
Perspectives
Most articles on gender transgressive sexual violence or IPV think only along the axis of whether these forms of violence are silenced or recognized. This article goes in depth about how we think about one such form of violence once we have recognized that it exists.
KelleyAnne Malinen
Mount Saint Vincent University
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This page is a summary of: Gender, Free Will, and Woman-to-Woman Sexual Assault in Service Provider Discourses, Affilia, November 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0886109917734497.
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