TITLE:
Social, Cultural and Family Practices as Determinants of Narratives and the Self-Image of 11 Women with Histories of Child Sexual Abuse
AUTHORS:
Quintero-Hernández Yazmín Alejandra
KEYWORDS:
Child Sexual Abuse, Family, Self-Image, Narratives
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.5 No.5,
May
15,
2017
ABSTRACT: The
research comes from a postmodern perspective that harmonizes with the
qualitative investigation, this study summarizes the importance of language as
a determinant of the reality, the problem, and the solution to itself. The
purpose of the study was to analyze the narratives of 11 women with child
sexual abuse histories in order to know the image that the participants have of
themselves. They were identified dominant oppressive narratives loaded with
negative descriptions of themselves and some from the family culture. It is discussed the determinant influence
of language, family and culture in the construction of these images and it is
concluded the importance of thinking about their origin, as well as
constructing alternative realities that may result more functional for them.