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...
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...
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...
The majority of women are incarcerated for nonviolent offenses and pose little or no danger to society. Even when they have committed violent crimes, they are often directed to intimate partners who inflicted years of abuse upon them. The literature does not support the existence of the "career...
The stakes are huge. On the one hand, women who are insecure about their bodies are more likely to buy beauty products, new clothes, and diet aids. It is estimated that the diet industry alone is worth anywhere between 40 to 100 billion (U.S.) a year selling temporary weight loss (90...
On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men. 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have been victims of some form of physical violence by an intimate partner with...
On the other hand, women who have been abused, who have had poor parental bonding, and who have not had the opportunity to develop subsequent attachments, are less likely to make use of available social supports. Clients who are unable to develop and use social supports may also be unable...
Recent government statistics contrasting the circumstances of offenders indicate that women are more likely than men to report economic difficulties prior to their involvement in crime (Bureau 202 HOLTFRETER ET AL. of Justice Statistics, 1999%). When coupled with the findings from research on ...
the sample size may not be statistically significant for the results to be representative of the entire kink community. It is reasonable to assume that there are many people practicing kink behaviors who have no knowledge of the kink community; it is also reasonable to assume that many people ...
Dawut, who is seeking asylum in the US, believes that the Chinese government wants to “completely eliminate” the Uyghur people from Xinjiang. “Our land is big. Our land is rich. And because we are the owners of that land, they want to eliminate us,” she said. ...