Abused Women's Understandings of Intimate Partner Violence and the Link to Intimate Femicide
Abstract: In this article, we explore how women survivors of intimate partner violence understand the abuse they endured and the possible link to intimate femicide. This is a qualitative study based on a feminist poststructuralist perspective. Seven South African women, aged 23 to 50 years, with a history of different manifestations of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) participated in open-ended interviews. The data was analyzed by means of discourse analysis. In their explanations, the women constructed gendered identities, which reflected contradictory and ambiguous subjective experiences. The women's understandings were filtered through the particular social context in which their abusive experiences occurred. The findings highlighted that contemplating femicide was too threatening, and consequently participants drew on discourses of femininity, romantic love, and others to justify their remaining in their violence-ridden relationships. It emphasizes the need for additional engagement in wo.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2394
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Abused Women's Understandings of Intimate Partner Violence and the Link to Intimate Femicide ; volume:17 ; number:1 ; day:19 ; month:01 ; year:2016
Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 17, Heft 1 (19.01.2016)
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Dekel, Bianca
Andipatin, Michelle
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10.17169/fqs-17.1.2394
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urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs160196
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 7:21 AM CEST
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