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Abstract: This thesis asks how everyday is experienced and understood after sexual violence. In the first chapter, I ask how the concept of rape culture has influenced activist and scholarly approaches to sexual violence, and what we might learn by encountering people who have experienced sexual violence in not only a rape culture, but also a sensorium of sexual violence that takes seriously feelings ... read moreof everyday life. In the second chapter, I focus on experiences of traumatic triggers in order to ask how the aftermath of sexual violence is embodied through sensory, felt experiences. In the final chapter, I focus on communication and community in order to ask how people may work together to prevent sexual violence and make the world more livable for those who have already experienced it.read less
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