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Violence Against Women, Vol. 5, No. 11, 1238-1257 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/1077801299005011002
© 1999 SAGE Publications

The Price of the Ticket

A Survivor-Centered Appraisal of Trauma Theory

MARY E. GILFUS

Simmons College

This article takes a critical look at the current trend toward applying trauma theory to the understanding of women's experiences of violence and abuse. Multicultural feminist theories and the author's standpoint as a survivor are used to deconstruct pathologizing and exclusionary assumptions implicit in much trauma work. Elements of a survivor-centered approach are articulated and offered as legitimate ways of knowing. This epistemological shift is intended to give researchers and practitioners a more socially contextualized, culturally inclusive, and strengths-oriented understanding of the social distribution of traumatic injury.


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