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The Dance of Dependency: A Genealogy of Domestic Violence Discourse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Kathleen J. Ferraro
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Abstract

Domestic violence discourse challenges cultural acceptance of male violence against women, yet it is often constituted by gendered, racialized, and class-based hierarchies. Transformative efforts have not escaped traces of these hierarchies. Emancipatory ideals guiding 1970s feminist activism have collided with conservative impulses to maintain and strengthen family relationships. Crime control discourse undermines critiques of dominance through its focus on individual men. Domestic violence discourse exemplifies both resistance to and replication of hierarchies of power.

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Hypatia , Volume 11 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Women and Violence , Fall 1996 , pp. 77 - 91
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Copyright © 1996 by Hypatia, Inc.

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