@article{ref1,
title="Victims, survivors, and veterans: a circle of courage",
journal="Women and therapy",
year="1997",
author="Crowley, M. Sue",
volume="20",
number="1",
pages="77-81",
abstract="The article describes a self-help group experience with victim/survivors of sexual abuse. By highlighting one group member's story of incestuous abuse and paternal pimping, the facilitator examines how her own thoughts and feelings about sexual abuse evolved from a psychological perspective based on individual survival to a better understanding of political, group resistance. The need to develop further a language of resistance that highlights both women's political and personal courage is discussed. The term &quot;veteran&quot; is offered as an adjunct to the use of &quot;victim/survivor&quot; because it connotes both honor and courage, providing a defiantly proud term with which to identify sexually abused women. As an addition to the discourse on victimization, &quot;veteran&quot; implies a political awareness of women's age-old struggle against sexual oppression and honors those who openly challenge die status quo.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0270-3149",
doi="10.1300/J015v20n01_13",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J015v20n01_13"
}