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- Title
An Updated Feminist View of Intimate Partner Violence.
- Authors
George, Jayashree; Stith, Sandra M.
- Abstract
In this article, we explore intimate partner violence ( IPV) from an intersectional, feminist perspective. We describe how an updated feminist view guides us to a perspective on IPV that is more strongly grounded in an antioppressive, nonviolent, socially just feminist stance than a second-wave gender-essential feminist stance that suggests that patriarchy is the cause of IPV. At the time we began to work together it seemed that a researcher had to be identified as a 'family violence' researcher or a 'feminist' researcher of violence against women, and that it wasn't possible to be a feminist researcher who looked beyond patriarchy as the cause of IPV. We advocate critically thinking about essentialist practices in clinical work so that we can maintain an antioppressive, socially just, nonviolent approach to working with clients who experience IPV.
- Subjects
FEMINISM; HUMAN rights; POWER (Social sciences); SOCIAL justice; THEORY; COUPLES therapy; INTIMATE partner violence
- Publication
Family Process, 2014, Vol 53, Issue 2, p179
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/famp.12073