Resilience in the face of trauma : how sexual violence shapes economic well-being
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Sexual violence can be physically, emotionally, relationally, and financially devastating, resulting in major disruption to survivors' everyday lives. However, about 70% of trauma survivors will be resilient—defined as maintaining a stable equilibrium in one's everyday life in the months and years following a traumatic event. Given that over half of women will experience sexual violence at some point in their lifetime, my dissertation asks: How are women doing well, despite the sexual trauma they face? I directly intervene in this debate by highlighting the roles that social support and social institutions play in facilitating and constraining survivors' resilience trajectories. I do this by examining the case of sexual violence and economic resilience. In the first paper of my dissertation, I provide a theoretical framework for explaining how economic resilience is empowered and constrained through an integration of micro-level, meso-level, and institutional-level social processes. This integration of a survivor's agency at the micro-level with the social structure in order to be resilient is a social process I term integrated resilience. The second dissertation paper zooms in on resilience in the context of educational persistence. Despite the high rates of sexual violence that school-aged women face, I explain how women are doing academically well through their strategic deployment of institutional support. The third dissertation paper traces how the workplace can be a site of both constraint and empowerment for survivors of sexual violence. In this paper, I show how these constraining and empowering experiences in the workplace shape survivors' future job search processes and occupational destinations. My body of work aims to show not only the harms done to women, but their strength and ingenuity in response to social constraint.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Nichols, Bethany J |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Ridgeway, Cecilia |
| Thesis advisor | Ridgeway, Cecilia |
| Thesis advisor | Grusky, David |
| Thesis advisor | Jackson, Michelle |
| Thesis advisor | Jimenez, Tomas |
| Degree committee member | Grusky, David |
| Degree committee member | Jackson, Michelle |
| Degree committee member | Jimenez, Tomas |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Bethany J. Nichols. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/pc159fr8530 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Bethany J. Nichols
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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