Impacts of Sexual Violence on Women’s Sexual Health

Noack-Lundberg, Kyja

Abstract

This chapter provides a review of the health impacts of sexual violence on women’s lives. Sexual violence is common and widespread, and affects not only women’s mental health, but also their physical, sexual and perinatal health. Sexual violence is often viewed as a single incident, yet many women face multiple or cumulative traumas throughout the course of their lives, including sexual assault, physical violence, and child sexual abuse. Sexual violence may occur as part of an everyday social climate that acts to facilitate or condone violence against women, or may take place in conflict situations, where it is encouraged by an ideology of militarized masculinity.

Citation

Noack-Lundberg, K. (2019). Impacts of Sexual Violence on Women’s Sexual Health. In J. M. Ussher, J. C. Chrisler, & J. Perz (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health (468-481). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351035620

• Online Publication Date: Sep 23, 2019
• Publication Date: Oct 14, 2019
• Deposit Date: Nov 23, 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 468-481
• Book Title: Routledge International Handbook of Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Chapter Number: 31
• ISBN: 9781138490260 ; 9781032475240
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351035620
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4449667
• Contract Date: Jul 1, 2019