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Loving to survive : sexual terror, men's violence, and women's lives /

In 1973, three women and one man were held hostage in one of the largest banks in Stockholm by two ex-convicts. These two men threatened their lives, but also showed them kindness. Over the course of the long ordeal, the hostages came to identify with their captors, developing an emotional bond with...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Graham, Dee (Author)
Other Authors: Rawlings, Edna I., Rigsby, Roberta K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [1994]
Series:Feminist crosscurrents.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Love Thine Enemy: Hostages and Classic Stockholm Syndrome
  • 2. Graham's Stockholm Syndrome Theory: A Universal Theory of Chronic Interpersonal Abuse?
  • 3. "Here's My Weapon, Here's My Gun; One's for Pleasure, One's for Fun": Conditions Conducive to Women's Development of Societal Stockholm Syndrome
  • 4. En-Gendered Terror: The Psychodynamics of Stockholm Syndrome Applied to Women as a Group in Our Relations with Men as a Group
  • 5. The Beauties and the Beasts: Women's Femininity, Love of Men, and Heterosexuality
  • 6. Moving from Surviving to Thriving: Breaking Out of Societal Stockholm Syndrome
  • Appendix. Potential Aspects of Stockholm Syndrome.