The Conceptual Politics of Struggle: Wife Battering, the Women’s Movement, and the State

Walker, Gillian

doi:10.1080/19187033.1990.11675472

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“…Government understands the impacts on women as being individual problems, rather than systemic ones rooted in a lack of coordinated government programs and funding (Rossiter, 2011;Walker, 1990). These experiences exemplify feminist and structural social work theory, which espouses that power based relationships require and are maintained through dominant gender roles which are usually occupied by men (Anderson, 2005;Ras-Work, 2006).…”

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“…Government and law then interpret and present violence against women in relationships through the oppressors' language; using the concept/category of victim then absorbs the wife and partner involved in the incident of assault. Unfortunately, Canadian federal and provincial governments continue to utilize language of the oppressor with terminology such as spousal violence, or spousal assault, family violence, and intimate partner violence (Walker, 1990). Such terminology continues to uphold and enforce patriarchy and the subjugation of women as only men's interests are supported and protected, while women's rights continue to be jeopardized and at risk.…”

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“…The criminal justice system could then support the women's movement. Feminists were then able to work on having the concept of violence expanded over time to include threats, sexual coercion, and economic abuse, etcetera (Walker, 1990). Government and law then interpret and present violence against women in relationships through the oppressors' language; using the concept/category of victim then absorbs the wife and partner involved in the incident of assault.…”

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“…Abusive behaviours also recognized are deprivation, financial exploitation, neglect, and intimidation (British Columbia Criminal Justice Branch Ministry of Justice, 2013). For the purposes of this project, the terms violence against women in relationships (VAWIR), male violence against women in relationships ( Walker, 1990), or domestic violence against women (Rossiter, 2011) are used. Many terms are employed to reflect violence in relationships, which include female and male victims, such as intimate partner violence, spousal violence, and family violence, but they disguise the gender-base of the crime, and may actually hide the issue rather than uncovering it (Coates & Ridley, 2009;Coates & Wade, 2004;Rossitter, 2011).…”

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“…Professional, intellectual and administrative work are built into an expansive network according to Walker (1990), "through which certain activities are selected and named as categories, intended to identify particular problems and particular solutions" (p. 65). These categories then operate as ruling concepts and the social construction of knowledge becomes organized in "ways of thinking about, defining and giving abstract and generalized meaning to our particular experience" (p. 65).…”

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Women's Experiences of laws, policies and practices in response to VAWIR: whose rights are maintained?

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This study explores women's experiences of the criminal justice system in response to experiencing male violence in their intimate relationships, in a northern British Columbia community. Employing qualitative research methodology, this research utilized semi-structured interviews with women who had experienced male violence in their intimate relationships. Study findings revealed that participants were victims of structural violence and covert and overt oppressions. While all participants spoke of system strengths through their positive interactions with RCMP, the majority of women felt their interactions with the criminal justice system were negative. Many women did not feel their specific protection order or more broadly, the criminal justice system process upheld their legal rights to safety.ii

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Aggressive acts and assaults in intimate relationships: towards an understanding of the literature

Goodyear‐Smith

Laidlaw

1999

Behav. Sci. Law

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Far more people in relationships are subjected to violent acts than those who receive injuries. The degree of damage sustained may not reflect the perpetrator's intent to deliberately harm a partner. Data documenting aggressive acts determines the population at risk and their prevention and early treatment requirements; whereas data focusing on harm and injury helps determine emergency medical and refuge services. Data from national crime surveys, police records, or clinical populations should not be generalized to the population at large. Even if men perpetrate the majority of serious partner attacks, addressing the issue of female violence will significantly reduce the overall level of domestic violence. Judicial, medical, and social services should take note that while male violence may be more problematic, violence is a relationship issue, not a male issue. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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The politics of emotion and domestic violence in northern Vietnam

Kwiatkowski

2024

Feminist Anthropology

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Changing social, political, and cultural processes in Vietnam are reshaping people's emotional and social responses to domestic violence on multiple levels. Socioeconomic reforms instituted in the 1980s, the related state revival of Confucian gender ideologies, and the influences in recent decades of international and local nongovernmental organizations’ approaches to domestic violence are significant shifts that have influenced these emergent responses. Using the framework of feminist critical medical anthropology, I explore how different emotional experiences of violence provide insight into patterns of help‐seeking and interventions addressing marital violence. I suggest that Vietnamese state discourses and laws shape people's feelings in diverse and sometimes contradictory ways. State actors, for one, are particularly influenced to express and experience emotional responses in support of the nation. On the other hand, abused women, community members, and professionals experience more ambivalent feelings toward state discourses and practices as they engage moral emotions of care, love, and concern, prioritizing abused women's health and safety. Complicating this is some state actors grappling with their own ambivalent and tangled feelings as they assist abused women. Awareness of the diverse cross‐cultural range of emotional complexity can aid feminist anthropologists and activists in attempts to understand and prevent domestic violence.

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The Conceptual Politics of Struggle: Wife Battering, the Women’s Movement, and the State

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Women's Experiences of laws, policies and practices in response to VAWIR: whose rights are maintained?

Women's Experiences of laws, policies and practices in response to VAWIR: whose rights are maintained?

Aggressive acts and assaults in intimate relationships: towards an understanding of the literature

The politics of emotion and domestic violence in northern Vietnam

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