Sexual Abuse in Sport: A Qualitative Case Study

Owton, Helen (2016). Sexual Abuse in Sport: A Qualitative Case Study. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46795-5

URL: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319467948

Abstract

This book is about sexual abuse in sport, and specifically about one girl’s experience of long-term chronic abuse in sport. A ‘non-conventional’ approach is employed to explore the experiences of a female athlete named Bella who was groomed, sexually abused by her male coach, and then subjected to years of athlete domestic violence. Through a collaborative auto-ethnography process, these experiences are reported through vignettes and selected poems seeking to involve the reader in the grooming process of a young female athlete, so that they might react from the different social positions they currently occupy.

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