RT Article
T1 Respecting Boundaries: The Symbolic and Material Concerns of Drug-Involved Women Employing Violence against Violent Male Partners
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 46
IS 5
SP 837
OP 858
A1 Rajah, Valli
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1639318305
AB This ethnographic interview study of poor, minority, drug-involved women seeks to fill a gap in the existing research on partner violence by examining the meaning women attach to their own use of violence in their intimate relationships. This paper uses theory and research on symbolic boundaries and resistance to examine what symbolic boundaries study participants draw around violence, and how their desire for respect and respectability influence the boundaries that they draw. This paper highlights the interpretive flexibility of violence as a social phenomenon - a flexibility that allows the women in this study to maintain respectability. Yet, these various interpretations, it is argued, are constrained by the matrix of domination (Collins 2000a) within which women live out their lives
K1 Frauengewalt
K1 Frauen
K1 Drogenabhängigkeit
K1 Partnerschaft
K1 Partnergewalt
K1 Anerkennung
DO 10.1093/bjc/azl003