Journal
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Volume 19, Issue 9, Pages 1104-1132Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1077801213501842
Keywords
African; Caribbean; doing gender; domestic violence; Goffman; impression management; role negotiation
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- Department of Health [RP-PG-0108-10084] Funding Source: Medline
- National Institute for Health Research [RP-PG-0108-10084] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR) [RP-PG-0108-10084] Funding Source: National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR)
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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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