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How Social Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence Affect Homelessness Among Women in Two Rural Regions With Resource-Based Economies in Eastern Quebec
Author(s): Catherine Flynn, Pénelope Couturier, Simon Turcotte, Kim Dubé, Christophe Levesque, Philippe-Benoit Côté, Simon Lapierre
Publication Date: 2022
This study presents findings from a qualitative study conducted in two relatively remote, primarily rural regions of Quebec whose resource-based economic structures exacerbate inequalities between men and women. The purpose of this study was to understand how violence and homelessness intertwine in women’s life courses in such regions. 
“It Made Me so Vulnerable”: Victim-blaming and Disbelief of Child Sexual Abuse as Triggers of Social Exclusion Leading Women to Homelessness
Author(s): Philippe-Benoit Côté, Catherine Flynn, Kim Dubé, Mylène Fernet, Josiane Maheu, Audrey Gosslin-Pelerin, Pénelope Couturier, Mélissa Cribb, Gabrielle Petrucci & Marie-Marthe Cousineau
Publication Date: 2022
This study shows how traumatic child sexual abuse experiences and negative social reactions to their disclosure can both contribute to social exclusion and isolation, and to homelessness through the internalization of rape myths.