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Journeys After Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Phenomenological Study In A Frontier Region, Brittany Wienholz Mar 2014

Journeys After Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Phenomenological Study In A Frontier Region, Brittany Wienholz

Brittany R Wienholz

About 10% of the U.S population will experience child sexual abuse. This paper presentation will review the literature regarding survivors’ healing journeys and a qualitative research study design that utilizes feminist theory in order to promote justice for oppressed groups. Preliminary findings from the study will be presented.


The Frontier In Books, Richard Clement Jul 2010

The Frontier In Books, Richard Clement

Richard W. Clement

Unique among contemporary Western nations, the American national identity was created from present and living memory, unlike the English modern national identity, which was created out of distant memories from an era many centuries past. The English visions, which hearkened back to Anglo-Saxon England and the mythical Arthurian realms, were mediated by a small group of scholars who alone could understand the ancient languages. The books those scholars wrote were then read by a narrow circle of educated people who reinterpreted the ancient histories and myths for the general public, and in time the sense of what medieval England had …