Putting Feminism to Work

Suzanne Egan is currently a Research Associate at the University of Sydney, Australia, and formerly undertook violence prevention research in the NGO sector.

• 1.Introduction.- 2. Rape: from ‘normal’ adult sexuality to gendered power and violence.- 3. Sexual assault as trauma: Producing trauma as a feminist knowledge/practice.- 4. From the incest taboo to the ‘adult survivor’: The production of child sexual assault as a feminist issue.- 5. Trauma and the adult survivor.- 6. Male victims, institutional abuse and ‘trauma informed care’.- 7. Conclusion.