Representing Domestic Violence: Ambivalence and Difference in<i>What's Love Got to Do with It</i>

Shoos, Diane L.

doi:10.2979/nws.2003.15.2.57

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“…Westbrook (2009) suggested that perceptions are often influenced by domestic violence myths, which refer to misconceptions and false beliefs about IPV, abusers, and victims. Whereas individual adherence to domestic violence myths has been explored in multiple studies (Peters, 2008; Policastro & Payne, 2013; Westbrook, 2009), scholars have just recently begun to explore the perpetuation of IPV and domestic violence myths in popular media (Franiuk & Coleman Apa, 2017; Shoos, 2003). One area that has been overlooked is the comic book as a medium for highlighting social values, beliefs, and perceptions, particularly in regard to IPV and domestic violence.…”

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Bruised and Battered: Reinforcing Intimate Partner Violence in Comic Books

Garland

Policastro

Branch

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Feminist Criminology

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Previous studies have examined intimate partner violence (IPV) in popular culture; however, little attention has been given to the presence of domestic violence myths in comic books. Using a convenience sample taken from popular comic book series, this content analysis examines the prevalence of IPV and the myths used to justify such portrayals. Findings indicate that the reinforcement of IPV through myths is clearly evident within mainstream comic books. Discussion of the negative impact of the acceptance and reinforcement of IPV myths is addressed.

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Bruised and Battered: Reinforcing Intimate Partner Violence in Comic Books

Garland

Policastro

Branch

et al. 2018

Feminist Criminology

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Subjectification and Confession in Contemporary Memoirs of Abduction and Prolonged Captivity

Hillsburg¹

2017

Hypatia

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A striking trend is emerging in the Canadian and American literary landscape, and memoirs with the following narrative trajectory are now widely read: a stranger abducts a young woman, and holds her captive for years. She endures sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, eventually escapes, and returns to her former life. The sole scholarly discussion about these memoirs frames them as empowering for the authors, but the social and economic factors that inform these texts remain unaddressed. Drawing from Michel Foucault's discussion of the confession, this article complicates and extends this analysis. First, it situates memoirs by Elizabeth Smart, Amanda Berry and Gena DeJesus, Jaycee Dugard, Michelle Knight, and Josefina Rivera as examples of the Foucauldian sexual confession. It then maps the ways memoirs enable the authors to voice their understanding of the social and economic factors that both gave rise to their plight and inform media discussions that blame them for their suffering. I will ultimately argue that memoirs function as a public venue to resist or reject dominant interpretive frames that shape a survivor's experiences, while simultaneously reaffirming the ubiquity of these lines of thinking.

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The Mediated Portrayal of Intimate Partner Violence in True Crime Podcasts: Strangulation, Isolation, Threats of Violence, and Coercive Control

Slakoff

2021

Violence Against Women

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In this directed qualitative content analysis of four season-long true crime podcasts, the researcher examined how different types of intimate partner violence (IPV) were portrayed. Across the podcasts, controlling behaviors, emotional abuse, and coercive control were commonly depicted. Physical violence was not the most common form of abuse depicted, but it was presented in sensationalistic ways—with a pointed focus on strangulation and bruising. Overall, the podcasts provided a much more realistic portrayal of IPV at the individual level than traditional news sources, yet did not go far enough in describing the societal conditions that permit abuse.

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Representing Domestic Violence: Ambivalence and Difference inWhat's Love Got to Do with It

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Bruised and Battered: Reinforcing Intimate Partner Violence in Comic Books

Bruised and Battered: Reinforcing Intimate Partner Violence in Comic Books

Subjectification and Confession in Contemporary Memoirs of Abduction and Prolonged Captivity

The Mediated Portrayal of Intimate Partner Violence in True Crime Podcasts: Strangulation, Isolation, Threats of Violence, and Coercive Control

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