TY  - SER
AU  - Bower, Laura J. 
TI  - Is ‘victim-survivor’ our imperfect alternative to describing people with lived experience of sexual violence? : : a feminist symbolic interactionist analysis, considering how ethnicity, gender, and disability interact with language choice
PY  - 2025///
PB  - Sage, 
KW  - ATTITUDES
KW  - INTERSECTIONALITY
KW  - LANGUAGE
KW  - PĀRURENGA
KW  - SEXUAL VIOLENCE
KW  - TAITŌKAI
KW  - VICTIM/SURVIVORS' VIOCES
KW  - VICTIMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE
KW  - INTERNATIONAL
KW  - UNITED KINGDOM
N1  - Violence Against Women, 2025, First published online, 30 April 2025
N2  - Feminist violence and abuse literature is caught in the grips of a debate surrounding the most appropriate language to describe people with lived experiences of sexual violence. This article offers a theoretical tracing of the history of the normative framings of “victim” and “survivor,” and the emerging alternative “victim-survivor,” through a symbolic interactionist lens. Given that both “victim” and “survivor” labels hold distinct disadvantages in isolation, particularly among the survivor discourse for ethnic minority and disabled and male victim/survivors, “victim-survivor” offers an alternative, in a similar fashion to LGBTQ+, affording flexibility for victim/survivors to occupy a multi-dimensional form of identity. (Author's abstract). Record #9236
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012251338454
ER  -