This chapter will focus on the unique needs of women who have sex with women. The virtual absence of women from the history of HIV prevention education efforts, with a particular focus on lesbian women and their unique needs as a subculture, will be discussed. Recommendations will be made add...
victims.The purpose of this paper was to examine the differences in sexual functioning in abused women who perceived themselves to be adjusted to the trauma of their sexual abuse and those who did not.A sample of 57 nonclinical adult women who had been sexually abused as children was studied...
Physical and sexual abuses are traumatic experiences for women. Many older women who suffer from depression and express suicidal ideation are victims of past and/or present abuse. This study reports the results of a study of 364 women aged fifty-five years and older who were former patients in...
This article examines the plight of abused women in need of shelter in Canada, focusing on the social aspects of housing policy. The authors argue that statistics on homelessness exclude abused women, and analyze the complex needs of abused women in terms of housing and shelter.DOI...
Among women who experienced sexual abuse, 96 percent said the perpetrator was male, while split was more even among male victims, 49 percent of who said the perpetrator was female and 44 percent male. "Women are more likely to experience violence from a known person and in their home, while...
Among women who experienced sexual abuse, 96 percent said the perpetrator was male, while split was more even among male victims, 49 percent of who said the perpetrator was female and 44 percent male. "Women are more likely to experience violence from a known person and in their home, while...
But attempts at diversity may stop at middle echelons of news organizations, based on statistics of the number of women who hold high-ranking managerial positions at news outlets. Figures from the American Society of Newspaper Editors show that in 1979, fewer than 4% of its members were women...
Management of people who have been raped. Rape is common but under-reported, with an estimated lifetime risk of up to one in four for women.1 Definitions vary between countries; in England and Wales the term refers to non-consensual vaginal or anal penetration by a penis, of a w... J...
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 被引量: 499发表: 2004年 STRANGER AND ACQUAINTANCE RAPE. Most published research on the victim鈥搊ffender relationship has been based on small samples that consisted mainly of women who were raped by nonintimate ... MP Koss,TE Dinero,CA Seibel...
(Miller, Christopherson, & King,1993) and may provide adolescents with more differentiated insights into what constitutes being a man or a woman. As a result, adolescents in a relationship may be less likely than adolescents who are single to see women as sex objects. Finally, adolescents’ ...