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3. We don‟t know in any hard and fast way whether women or men are more susceptible to
involvement with the covertly abusive, but we do know women make up 95% of all the
victims in domestic violence, and, according to one source, 60% to 70% of the subjects
in recent research on former members of cultic groups (Chambers, Langone, Dole, &
Grice, 1994). Anecdotally, we believe women do outnumber men as followers in religious
groups.
4. As Nancy Tuana (1993) puts it, the perception of woman as less than man is “a
prejudice that is woven into the very fabric of our thinking, our self-imaging, our lived
experience” (p. xii).
References
Chambers, W., Langone, M.D., Dole, A.A., &Grice, J.W. (1994). The Group Psychological
Abuse Scale: A measure of the varieties of cultic abuse. Cultic Studies Journal, 11(1),
88-117.
Herman, J.L. (1992). Trauma and recovery. New York: Basic Books.
Sadker, M., &Sadker, D. (1994). Failing at fairness. New York: Simon &Schuster.
Singer, M.T., with Lalich, J. (1995). Cults in our midst: The hidden menace in our everyday
lives. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Tuana, N. (1993). The less noble sex. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1997, Volume 14,
Number 1, pages 58-84. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the
bound volume. This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.
3. We don‟t know in any hard and fast way whether women or men are more susceptible to
involvement with the covertly abusive, but we do know women make up 95% of all the
victims in domestic violence, and, according to one source, 60% to 70% of the subjects
in recent research on former members of cultic groups (Chambers, Langone, Dole, &
Grice, 1994). Anecdotally, we believe women do outnumber men as followers in religious
groups.
4. As Nancy Tuana (1993) puts it, the perception of woman as less than man is “a
prejudice that is woven into the very fabric of our thinking, our self-imaging, our lived
experience” (p. xii).
References
Chambers, W., Langone, M.D., Dole, A.A., &Grice, J.W. (1994). The Group Psychological
Abuse Scale: A measure of the varieties of cultic abuse. Cultic Studies Journal, 11(1),
88-117.
Herman, J.L. (1992). Trauma and recovery. New York: Basic Books.
Sadker, M., &Sadker, D. (1994). Failing at fairness. New York: Simon &Schuster.
Singer, M.T., with Lalich, J. (1995). Cults in our midst: The hidden menace in our everyday
lives. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Tuana, N. (1993). The less noble sex. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1997, Volume 14,
Number 1, pages 58-84. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the
bound volume. This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.
