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Book Review: Gender identity, sexual orientation, and sexual assault: Challenging the myths common method of creating meaning and keeping faith despite their negative experiences. Dr. Miller details the importance of social networks and how certain ones either helped or hindered women in their journeys. Personal support networks such as family, friends, and churches often played integral roles. Other social networks such as coworkers and bosses, the justice/legal system, victim advocates, and support/advocacy groups were also mentioned as being a large part of the leaving process. Journeys offers an expansive and insightful narrative into the process of leaving and staying out of an intimate partner abuse situation.

Dr. Miller uses a survivor-focused approach in her methodology. She performed fieldwork attending WIND meetings to understand the women’s approach to overcoming IPV/A. She also …