An Updated Feminist View of Intimate Partner Violence. Issue 2 (22nd April 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: George, Jayashree; Stith, Sandra M.
• Is Part Of: Family process. Volume 53:Issue 2(2014)
• Page Start: 179
• Page End: 193
• Publication Date: 2014-04-22
• Subjects: Family psychotherapy -- Periodicals; Families -- Periodicals; 616.8915
• DOI: 10.1111/famp.12073
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0014-7370

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" id="famp12073-abs-0001"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>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 <italic>the</italic> 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 <italic>the</italic> 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.</p> </abstract>