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Drawing the line: how African, Caribbean and white British women live out psychologically abusive experiences

Drawing the line: how African, Caribbean and white British women live out psychologically abusive experiences
Drawing the line: how African, Caribbean and white British women live out psychologically abusive experiences
This study explores how African, Caribbean and White British women worked to hide psychological partner abuse as they experienced it, “do gender,” and appear competent in social roles. They prioritized negotiated competencies as “good partners,” actively setting socially and culturally embedded boundaries to their abuser’s behaviors: an inner boundary encompassing normal behaviors and an outer one of “acceptable” behaviors projected as normal through remedial work. Behaviors breaching the outer boundary (e.g., if the women narrowed the bounds of the “acceptable”) compromised the women’s competence. This sometimes led them to actively use support services. Appropriate advice and support may change the boundaries
1077-8012
1104-1132
Rivas, C.
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Kelly, M.
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Feder, G.
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Rivas, C.
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Kelly, M.
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Feder, G.
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Rivas, C., Kelly, M. and Feder, G. (2013) Drawing the line: how African, Caribbean and white British women live out psychologically abusive experiences. Violence Against Women, 19 (9), 1104-1132. (doi:10.1177/1077801213501842). (PMID:24142953)

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This study explores how African, Caribbean and White British women worked to hide psychological partner abuse as they experienced it, “do gender,” and appear competent in social roles. They prioritized negotiated competencies as “good partners,” actively setting socially and culturally embedded boundaries to their abuser’s behaviors: an inner boundary encompassing normal behaviors and an outer one of “acceptable” behaviors projected as normal through remedial work. Behaviors breaching the outer boundary (e.g., if the women narrowed the bounds of the “acceptable”) compromised the women’s competence. This sometimes led them to actively use support services. Appropriate advice and support may change the boundaries

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Published date: September 2013
Organisations: Faculty of Health Sciences

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Local EPrints ID: 378003
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/378003
ISSN: 1077-8012
PURE UUID: f7a594f4-b122-449e-82eb-05f9fba93e2e

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Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 20:14

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Author: C. Rivas
Author: M. Kelly
Author: G. Feder

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