The Survivor as the Impossible Subject: Tracing Risk and Empowerment Discourse in Self-Defense Education.
Content warning: Sexual violence and victim blaming. In this study, I engage my experiences conducting fieldwork as a survivor of sexual violence across two locations of an international self-defense organization. By tracing risk and empowerment discourses across fieldwork, informant interviews, and...
| Publicado en: | Women's Studies in Communication Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 266 - 283 |
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Organization for Research on Women & Communication
May2025
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