scholarly journals Leaving a Violent Relationship

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Violent Relationship

Framing the Issues

Journeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Susan L. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Violent Relationship

Chapter 1 explores the key theoretical and empirical literature that guides the research project. It describes the pushes and pulls that women experience in relationships characterized by IPV/A and it outlines what we understand women need in the short term and long term after the dissolution of a violent relationship. This chapter also incorporates a discussion of central thematic concepts such as growth, healing from trauma, individual agency and collective efficacy, identity, and meaning making. I challenge the false, or incomplete, assumption that there is some kind of closure for women after leaving a violent relationship. Finally, it looks at what it means to be “resilient.”

“Fraud, Fun, and Feeling”: Slavery, Industrialism, and the Mother-Machine in Frances Trollope's Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 519-550
Author(s):  
Lucy Sheehan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Maternal Body ◽  
Experience Of Care ◽  
Frances Trollope ◽  
Violent Relationship ◽  
Industrial Novels

For Frances Trollope, the nineteenth century was defined by what she perceives to be a pervasive mechanization of emotional life, a phenomenon similar to what Tamara Ketabgian has recently described as the “industrialization of affect” in this period. At the center of this phenomenon, for Trollope, is the disquieting specter of the mother-machine, a figure in whom the processes of mechanical production and maternal reproduction collide. The figure originates, in Trollope's fiction, in the character Juno, an enslaved woman whose alienation from her children under slavery serves as a major plot point in her groundbreaking 1836 antislavery novel The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw; or Scenes on the Mississippi. That figure is then reworked in the violent relationship between children and machines Trollope would go on to depict in her 1839–40 novel, The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy, one of the first industrial novels published in Victorian England. In these early fictions, Trollope documents what she perceives to be the mechanization of the maternal body under, alternately, slavery and industrialism, and its consequences for both the work and experience of care under nineteenth-century capitalism in its varied forms.

The Significance of Sheltering in the Lives of Four Women Affected by Abusive Relationships

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 616-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Wright ◽  
Peace Kiguwa ◽  
Charles Potter
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Abusive Relationships ◽  
Abused Women ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Decision To Leave ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Violent Relationship

Domestic violence is recognised as a pervasive problem in South Africa. This study focused on the narratives of four abused women and attempted to establish the significance of sheltering in their lives. A qualitative research design was used based on semi-structured interviews, which were analysed thematically. The findings supported past research, indicating that although the women's experiences were diverse they contained many features similar to those reported in previous studies. Each of the four women was not a passive victim, having taken the decision to leave an abusive and violent relationship. Sheltering was found to provide the protected space necessary to move beyond the abuse, and in addition provided the structure and social support necessary to start to transcend the abuse. Sheltering was found to fill gaps created by a society in transition, in which abuse and violence are often tolerated or condoned within existing social and family structures.

scholarly journals VIOLENCIA DE GÉNERO: EL PAPEL DE LA EMPATÍA Y EL PERDÓN SOBRE LA ACTITUD HACIA VOLVER CON LA EXPAREJA

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 353
Author(s):  
Beatriz Montes-Berges ◽  
María Aranda
Keyword(s):  
Battered Women ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Predictive Capacity ◽  
Self Forgiveness ◽  
Empathic Ability ◽  
Violent Relationship ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract.GENDER VIOLENCE: EMPATHY AND FORGIVENESS ROLE ON THE ATTITUDE TOWARD RETURNING WITH THE EXPARTNER.In the intervention with battered women, to minimize the impact of the experience and to diminish the possibility of a return to the violent relationship is quite important. To achieve this purpose, working on variables with a restorative effect on the process is the key. Considering the role of forgiveness in other clinical contexts, and the linking of empathy with it, the objective of the study was to analyze the relationship and predictive capacity of empathy and forgiveness (forgiveness of the situation and self-forgiveness, and forgiveness of the other) on the attitude of returning with the ex-partner. The study involved 17 women between 26 and 60 years. It was found that the ability or inability to separate from the emotions of others (reverberation), as empathic ability, influences the attitude of returning or not with the ex-partner. In addition, participants with greater difficulty in self forgiveness and forgive the situation had a higher difficulty of separation or reverberation.Keywords: Gender violence, empathy, forgiveness, attitude toward return.Resumen.En la intervención con mujeres víctimas de violencia de género es fundamental minimizar el impacto de la experiencia sufrida y disminuir la posibilidad de retorno a la relación violenta. Para ello es clave trabajar sobre variables con efecto reparador sobre el proceso. Considerando el papel que se ha otorgado al perdón en otros contextos clínicos y la vinculación de la empatía con éste, el objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar la relación y capacidad predictiva de la empatía y el perdón en sus dos dimensiones (perdón a la situación y autoperdón, y perdón al otro) sobre la actitud de volver con la expareja. Participaron 17 mujeres de entre 26 y 60 años. Se encontró que la capacidad o incapacidad de separarse de las emociones de los demás (reverberación), influye en la actitud de volver o no con la expareja. Además, las participantes con mayor dificultad para perdonarse a sí mismas y a la situación, presentaban también una dificultad más elevada de separación emocional o reverberación.Palabras clave: violencia de género, empatía, perdón, actitud hacia volver.

scholarly journals Intimate Partner Violence and Stalking Behavior: Exploration of Patterns and Correlates in a Sample of Acutely Battered Women

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mindy B. Mechanic ◽  
Terri L. Weaver ◽  
Patricia A. Resick
Keyword(s):  
Battered Women ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Descriptive Data ◽  
Time Out ◽  
Violent Relationship ◽  
The Relationship

The aims of this study were to provide descriptive data on stalking in a sample of acutely battered women and to assess the interrelationship between constructs of emotional abuse, physical violence, and stalking in battered women. We recruited a sample of 114 battered women from shelters, agencies, and from the community at large. Results support the growing consensus that violent and harassing stalking behaviors occur with alarming frequency among physically battered women, both while they are in the relationship and after they leave their abusive partners. Emotional and psychological abuse emerged as strong predictors of within- and postrelationship stalking, and contributed a unique variance to women’s fears of future serious harm or death, even after the effects of physical violence were controlled. The length of time a woman was out of the violent relationship was the strongest predictor of postseparation stalking, with increased stalking found with greater time out of the relationship. Results suggest the need to further study the heterogeneity of stalking and to clarify its relationship to constructs of emotional and physical abuse in diverse samples that include stalked but nonbattered women, as women exposed to emotional abuse, and dating violence.

Non-Violent Relationship Questionnaire

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Eckstein ◽  
Lucy La Grassa
Keyword(s):  
Violent Relationship

scholarly journals Explanations of a Violent Relationship: The Male Perpetrator’s Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason B. Whiting ◽  
Timothy G. Parker ◽  
Austin W. Houghtaling
Keyword(s):  
Violent Relationship
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