Women’s stories of trauma often reveal uncertainty, minimization, and self-blame. This paper explores community-based research findings on women’s narratives illustrating powerful, yet uncertain, stories of chronic, multiple, and severe trauma. This paper argues that 1) research needs to recognize that posttraumatic responses often involve uncertainty and ambivalence about telling stories of trauma; 2) uncertainty is not just a product of trauma but also reflects the influence of the dominant discourse on women and trauma that creates fragmented memory of the events and supports blaming women for the violence and minimizing the serious of the violence; 3) uncertainty reveals the dangers of speaking and often a struggle with speaking and hiding simultaneously; and 4) research questions can be designed to counterview dominant discourse which will bring forward the prevalence and nature of the violence.

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妇女的创伤叙事：（重新）存储不确定性，最小化和自责

妇女关于创伤的故事常常揭示出不确定性，最小化和自责。本文探讨了关于女性叙事的基于社区的研究结果，这些故事说明了有力但不确定的慢性，多发和严重创伤的故事。本文认为：1）研究需要认识到，创伤后的反应通常涉及讲述创伤故事的不确定性和模棱两可；2）不确定性不仅是创伤的产物，而且反映了占主导地位的话语对妇女和创伤的影响，造成对事件的零散记忆，并支持将暴力归咎于妇女并使暴力的严重程度降至最低；3）不确定性揭示了说话的危险，并且经常会同时说话和躲藏；