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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Violent relationships"”.
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Explorations of resilience in women who experience domestically violent relationships
… as to why women often remain in abusive relationships. Furthermore, the rationale of the thesis is to contest the notion that women who remain in domestically violent relationships do so for underlying pathological reasons.
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Understanding Female Aggression in Situationally Violent Relationships: A Qualitative Study
… about female aggression in situationally violent relationship. The interviews and surveys of four African-American couples were coded and analyzed to gather information about the impact of female aggression on the relationship, the contextual factors surrounding female aggression, and the …
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Battered women: Exploring motivating factors to leave or remain in violent relationships
… factors motivating women to leave or remain in violent relationships from an interactionist perspective. Literature reviewed will integrate gender socialization and labeling with studies on domestic violence to investigate a woman's role in becoming a victim and her responses to violent …
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"…Economic abuse to me is not seen, you know?" Service provider’s perceptions of women’s experiences of economic abuse within domestic violent relationships
… abuse may limit women’s agency to leave a violent domestic relationship. In order to provide an understanding of the nature of economic abuse, four focus group discussions were conducted with MOSAIC service providers who assist women of abuse. Additionally, data from MOSAIC in-take forms² …
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Investigating the discourses women draw on to understand violence in intimate relationships
… This research investigated how women in violent relationships make meaning out of the violence by examining the discourses that women draw on to understand the violence. Using feminist post-structuralist theory as the epistemological framework, a discourse analysis was conducted on seven …
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Ethics and Responsibility of Post-Colonial Allyness
… the structuration of capitalist economies and violent relationships with the colonized. Since decolonization, there have been many remnants of colonial legacy: poverty, violence, trauma, and corruption. Many colonized participate in removing these remnants, yet the struggle requires …
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ʼn Psigoanalitiese lees van die ouer-kind-verhouding in die romans Kinnes van chase rhys en hy kom met die skoenlappers deur valda jansen.
… feel powerless. These books shed light on how relationships, especially violent relationships, may affect a child’s identity. Kinnes and Hy kom met die skoenlappers addresses uncomfortable silences within the coloured or brown community. This includes showing the influence of the relationship …
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Effects of Exposure to Abuse and Violence in Childhood on Adult Attachment and Domestic Violence in Women’s Same-Sex Relationships
… sexual abuse are likely to repeat or engage in violent relationships later in life (O’Keefe, 1997; van der Kolk, 2009). Victimized children are also at a greater risk of developing unhealthy, insecure ways of relating (Siegel & Hartzell, 2003).</p> <p>Unexpectedly, childhood abuse or exposure to …
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THE INFLUENCE OF MOTHERS’ CONCERNS FOR THEIR CHILDREN ON STAY-LEAVE DECISION MAKING FOR WOMEN EXPERIENCING INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE: A COMPARISON OF WOMEN WITH CHILDREN AND WOMEN WITHOUT CHILDREN
… indicate that women with children remain in violent relationships longer and endure a higher frequency of severe abuse.
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THE INFLUENCE OF MOTHERS’ CONCERNS FOR THEIR CHILDREN ON STAY-LEAVE DECISION MAKING FOR WOMEN EXPERIENCING INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE: A COMPARISON OF WOMEN WITH CHILDREN AND WOMEN WITHOUT CHILDREN
… indicate that women with children remain in violent relationships longer and endure a higher frequency of severe abuse.
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Domestic violence within a marriage: a critical analysis of the cultural barriers faced by Muslim Asian women when seeking assistance
… of women make decisions to stay in or leave violent relationships. It also sets out suggested reforms for good practice and suggests practical ways to enhance the development of culturally sensitive service provision based upon the research.
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Influence of Positive Expectancies and Adaptive Goal Investment on Relationship Abuse
… of the processes related to ending or changing violent relationships (e.g., Anderson, 1997; Burke, Gielen, McDonnell, O'Campo, & Maman, 2001; Little & Kantor, 2002; McPhail, Busch, Kulkarni, & Rice, 2007). Additional research addressing the process through which violence occurs may further our …
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Influence of Positive Expectancies and Adaptive Goal Investment on Relationship Abuse
… of the processes related to ending or changing violent relationships (e.g., Anderson, 1997; Burke, Gielen, McDonnell, O'Campo, & Maman, 2001; Little & Kantor, 2002; McPhail, Busch, Kulkarni, & Rice, 2007). Additional research addressing the process through which violence occurs may further our …
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Economic Inequality and Intimate Partner Violence against Women : An Analysis of the British Crime Survey 2008/09.
… is related to remaining in, and exiting from, violent relationships for women from the same population. Analysis is conducted on a representative sample of 12,920 working-age women in the British Crime Survey 2008/09. The process of critically analysing the choice of data source and measure of …
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Violence and depression among ethnically diverse, low income women: Mediating and moderating factors
… and 260 Mexican American women in long term relationships with a household income less that twice the poverty threshold. There were no ethnic differences on frequency of partner violence, depression, or suicidality. The moderate relationship between partner violence and women's depression, …
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Attributions for Violence in Relationships: Do Battered Women Blame Themselves?
… for spousal violence made by women who were in violent relationships with those of abused women who had sought shelter and those of women who had never been abused. Both clinicians and researchers (e.g., Frieze, 1979; Walker, 1979) have included victims of marital abuse among victims who …
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Playing the Game: Violence and the Revolt Against Normative Masculinity in John Updike's Rabbit Run, Norman Mailer's an American Dream, and Phil Andros's $tud
… American masculinity is already perverse in its violent subjection. Phil does not necessarily represent a ‘new gay ethic’ as argued by John Preston's introductory essay, but rather, unexpectedly, embodies something fundamental to Cold War masculinity. As such, he serves as a lens through which we …
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‘Shouting Out Loud’: Reading the development of queer lesbian feminisms in 1990s Britain through the <i>Lesbians Talk Issues </i>pamphlet series
… Politics </i>(1994) by Kristina Studzinski, <i>Violent Relationships</i> (1995) by Joelle Taylor and Tracey Chandler,<i> Transgender</i> (1996) by Zachary I. Nataf and <i>Detonating the Nuclear Family</i> (1996) by Julia Brosnan. This thesis approaches the pamphlets as examples of feminist …
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Finding Meaning in the Aftermath of Trauma: Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth in Female Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
… explore posttraumatic growth in the aftermath of violent relationships. The purpose of this study was to explore resiliency and growth factors in women who were interviewed for the Domestic Violence Project at The University of Montana, which comprises an archival dataset. Participants were 127 …
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