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Mid-Term Assignment:
Violence, Victimhood and Rape with reference to Susan Brison's Aftermath

Word Count: 854 words

The Oxford Dictionary describes rape as the act of forcing an individual to have sexual intercourse against their will. This essay will explore many different aspects of violence, in particular rape, its effects on the victims and will discuss the strategies that can be implemented by victims to help them cope with there lives afterwards. It also discusses the sociological function of blaming rape victims for there attack.

One of the reasons rape is so damaging is the fact that victims often feel that their lives have been changed afterwards. It is not unusual for these victims to feel that they have lost their sense of identity in the world. In Susan Brison's book Aftermath, she comments on her own experience, as well as the experiences of other victims she spoke to, of feeling as if, although they had survived the sexual attack, they hadn't really survived......

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Approximate Word Count: 877
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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