Elizabeth A. Kelly CBE is the professor and director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University, the former head of the now-defunct Women's National Commission, and co-chair, along with Marai Larasi, of the End Violence Against Women Coalition.

• Acknowledgements viGuide to transcription of interviews viiIntroduction ix1 ‘Sharing a particular pain’: researching sexual violence 12 A central issue: sexual violence and feminist theory 203 The knowledge explosion: an overview of previous research 434 ‘It’s happened to so many women’: sexual violence as a continuum (1) 745 ‘It’s everywhere’: sexual violence as a continuum (2) 976 ‘I’m not sure what to call it but . . .’: defining sexual violence 1387 Victims or survivors?: resistance, coping and survival 1598 ‘It leaves a mark’: coping with the consequences of sexual violence 1869 ‘I’ll challenge it now wherever I see it’: from individual survival to collective resistance 217Notes 239Select bibliography 266Index 268

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Elizabeth A. Kelly CBE is the professor and director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University, the former head of the now-defunct Women's National Commission, and co-chair, along with Marai Larasi, of the End Violence Against Women Coalition.

• Acknowledgements viGuide to transcription of interviews viiIntroduction ix1 ‘Sharing a particular pain’: researching sexual violence 12 A central issue: sexual violence and feminist theory 203 The knowledge explosion: an overview of previous research 434 ‘It’s happened to so many women’: sexual violence as a continuum (1) 745 ‘It’s everywhere’: sexual violence as a continuum (2) 976 ‘I’m not sure what to call it but . . .’: defining sexual violence 1387 Victims or survivors?: resistance, coping and survival 1598 ‘It leaves a mark’: coping with the consequences of sexual violence 1869 ‘I’ll challenge it now wherever I see it’: from individual survival to collective resistance 217Notes 239Select bibliography 266Index 268

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Elizabeth A. Kelly CBE is the professor and director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University, the former head of the now-defunct Women's National Commission, and co-chair, along with Marai Larasi, of the End Violence Against Women Coalition.

• Acknowledgements viGuide to transcription of interviews viiIntroduction ix1 ‘Sharing a particular pain’: researching sexual violence 12 A central issue: sexual violence and feminist theory 203 The knowledge explosion: an overview of previous research 434 ‘It’s happened to so many women’: sexual violence as a continuum (1) 745 ‘It’s everywhere’: sexual violence as a continuum (2) 976 ‘I’m not sure what to call it but . . .’: defining sexual violence 1387 Victims or survivors?: resistance, coping and survival 1598 ‘It leaves a mark’: coping with the consequences of sexual violence 1869 ‘I’ll challenge it now wherever I see it’: from individual survival to collective resistance 217Notes 239Select bibliography 266Index 268

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