The Search for Autonomous Intimacy: Sexual

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

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

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