The Search for Autonomous Intimacy: Sexual Abuse and Young Women's Identity Development

by Crowley, M. Sue

• ISBN13: 9780820439440
• ISBN10: 0820439444
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Author Biography

M. Sue Crowley is Associate Professor of Human Development at Binghamton University

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(2)
Goals and Descriptions	3	(2)
Contents by Chapter	5	(4)
Conclusion	9	(2)
Impacts of Sexual Abuse on Self-Concept Development Across Childhood	11	(28)
Introduction	11	(2)
Infancy and Toddlerhood: Self and Other Awareness	13	(2)
The Second Year	15	(4)
Embodied Memories: Truth or Consequences?	17	(2)
Early Childhood: The Emergence of Social Categories of Self	19	(8)
Competing Experts and Illusory Truths	25	(2)
Middle Childhood: A Private Self Emerges	27	(6)
Conclusion	33	(6)
The Rape of Identity	39	(28)
Introduction	39	(2)
Psychological Theory on Identity Development	41	(15)
Feminist Perspectives: Constructing Relationships	46	(5)
Racial and Ethnic Variations	51	(5)
The Rape of Identity: The Meanings of Sexual Abuse for Adolescent Girls	56	(8)
Conclusion	64	(3)
ADA: ``I have a Life now''	67	(30)
Introduction	67	(1)
Ada's Story: The Childhood Years	68	(4)
The Transition to Puberty	72	(4)
Middle Adolescence	76	(1)
Late Adolescence: A Premature Adulthood	77	(3)
The Beginnings of a New Life	80	(2)
Memories and Doubts	82	(5)
Coming Into Her Own	87	(6)
Conclusion	93	(4)
Chloe: ``I got Myself back''	97	(32)
Introduction	97	(1)
A ``Sheltered'' Childhood	97	(5)
The Transition to Adolescence	102	(3)
Mid-Adolescence: Secrets and Half-Truths	105	(4)
Chloe's Escape: The College Years	109	(5)
The Present and Future: Separation and Connection	114	(2)
Truth and Consequences: Themes Across Time	116	(4)
Conclusion: Developmental Implications	120	(9)
Letita: ``There is something about me''	129	(44)
Introduction	129	(1)
Childhood: A Sickness Within and Without	129	(4)
The Nonsecret Secret	133	(3)
Transition to Adolescence: An Introduction to Rape	136	(2)
Middle Adolescence: Rape and Resistance	138	(6)
Late Adolescence: Activism and Independence	144	(3)
Conscious Links: Personal and Political Abuse	147	(7)
A New Beginning: Commingling Fear and Hope	154	(7)
Implications for Research and Theory	161	(8)
Conclusion: Pathways to Resistance in Intimacy and Activism	169	(4)
Emerging from the Depths: The Search for Autonomous Intimacy	173	(28)
Introduction	173	(2)
Body, Mind, and Voice: Dialectical Disruptions of Identity	175	(8)
Social Collusion: The Shroud of Silence	183	(4)
Narrative Illustrations of Separate Connections	187	(5)
Theoretical Complications: The Dialectics of Separate Connections	192	(2)
Relatedness and Sexual Abuse: Reflections on Girls' Identity Development	194	(4)
Conclusion	198	(3)
Epilogue: Theoretical Implications and Conceptual Frameworks	201	(14)
Disrupting False Dichotomies: The Importance of Race and Gender	202	(2)
Conceptual Frameworks	204	(8)
Dialectical Oppositions and Interactions	205	(2)
Links Between Social and Psychological Levels of Experience	207	(2)
Multiple Interactions Across Social and Psychological Levels	209	(2)
Multidirectional Processes of Autonomous Intimacy in the Psychosocial Construction of Identities	211	(1)
Conclusion	212	(3)
References	215	(8)
Index	223