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Understanding Women’s Labeling of Unwanted Sexual Experiences With Dating Partners

A Qualitative Analysis

Melanie S. Harned

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, mharned{at}brtc.psych.washington.edu

Qualitative data are used to examine the process by which women come to label their unwanted sexual experiences with dating partners as sexual abuse or assault, as well as the factors that impede such labeling. Issues of consent, causal attributions, and minimization were found to be central to understanding why women did or did not label. Labeling was generally a gradual process and was most often triggered by social support seeking. Women who did not label typically defined the incident as something less serious than sexual abuse or assault, although some provided definitions indicating that they had felt victimized.

Key Words: labeling • sexual abuse • sexual assault

Violence Against Women, Vol. 11, No. 3, 374-413 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1077801204272240
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