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From rape victim to anti-rape activist : exploring the personal journeys of three South African survivors
Mini Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/65566 From rape victim to anti-rape activist : exploring the personal journeys of three South African survivors Human, Werner kallistekuhn@rocketmail.com Kuhn, Kalliste UCTD Mini Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2017. South Africa is plagued by exceptionally high levels of inter-personal violence, namely rape. Whilst rape remains so pervasive, it is important to underpin potential mechanism of recovery for those left in its wake. In an effort to understand the mechanisms of recovery from rape through resilience and meaning-making, this study entitled “From rape victim to anti-rape activist: Exploring the personal journeys of three South Africa Survivors” explores lived experiences. The study employed an interpretivist epistemological lens, whilst enacting hermeneutic phenomenology’s guiding principles for the research pathway. Participants were recruited through contact with a Gender-Based-Violence non-profit organisation, where a qualitative methodological design was employed. Data was gathered via semi-structured interviews within the hermeneutic tradition. Data was analysed using the principles of hermeneutic analysis, which gave rise to fusion of horizons providing a snapshot of six individual themes per participant, and four global themes. The experience of moving from victim to activist whilst experiencing recovery was negatively mediated by the impact of patriarchal culture, victim-blaming and gendered norms but was facilitated positively by reconstructing meaning through the telling of their own stories and the witnessing of other’s stories. The co-constructed understanding between researcher and participants gave rise to the importance of: recognising the undiscovered opportunities the trauma brings; undertaking altruistic activities; the manufacture of power through mastery in multiple life domains; as well as acknowledging the purpose in one’s life, in this instance motherhood – as a mechanism of redefining the relationship with the rape. Psychology MA Unrestricted 2018-07-16T07:53:43Z 2018-07-16T07:53:43Z 2018/04/25 2017 Mini Dissertation Kuhn, K 2017, From rape victim to anti-rape activist : exploring the personal journeys of three South African survivors, MA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65566> A2018 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65566 en © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD From rape victim to anti-rape activist : exploring the personal journeys of three South African survivors |
| title | From rape victim to anti-rape activist : exploring the personal journeys of three South African survivors |
| title_full | From rape victim to anti-rape activist : exploring the personal journeys of three South African survivors |
| title_fullStr | From rape victim to anti-rape activist : exploring the personal journeys of three South African survivors |
| title_full_unstemmed | From rape victim to anti-rape activist : exploring the personal journeys of three South African survivors |
| title_short | From rape victim to anti-rape activist : exploring the personal journeys of three South African survivors |
| title_sort | from rape victim to anti rape activist exploring the personal journeys of three south african survivors |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65566 |