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Gendered narratives: women's subjective accounts of their use of violence and alternative aggression(s) within their marital relationships

Gendered narratives: women's subjective accounts of their use of violence and alternative aggression(s) within their marital relationships

Banwell, Stacy ORCID: 0000-0001-7395-2617 (2010) Gendered narratives: women's subjective accounts of their use of violence and alternative aggression(s) within their marital relationships. Feminist Criminology, 5 (2). pp. 116-134. ISSN 1557-0851 (Print), 1557-086X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1557085110366223)

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Abstract

There has been a tendency within discourses of women’s violence to adopt an either/ or binary approach to women’s use of violence in intimate relationships. Women are either portrayed as blameless victims or culpable agents. To dichotomize women’s violence in this way is reductionist. Using in-depth life-story interviews of three women, this research examined women’s use of violence and aggression within the context of their agency, their victimization, and the choices available to them to illustrate how and why this binary approach limits the understanding of women’s violence in intimate relationships.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: women, intimate relationships, agency, victimization, alternative aggression(s)
Subjects: K Law > K Law (General)
Pre-2014 Departments: School of Humanities & Social Sciences
School of Humanities & Social Sciences > Department of Law & Criminology
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Last Modified: 25 Apr 2017 20:38
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/4712

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