Intimate partner violence in LGBTQ lives / edited by Janice L. Ristock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ristock, Janice L. (Janice Lynn)

Series:

Routledge research in gender and society ; 28.

Routledge research in gender and society ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intimate partner violence.

Same-sex partner abuse.

Lesbians.

Bisexual people.

Trans people.

Gay people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Queer lives remain at the margins of most academic inquiry into domestic violence. When same-sex violence is considered, it is most commonly as an ""added on,"" without close attention to the specificity and meaning of violence within the lives of lesbian/ gay/ bisexual/ transgender/Two-Spirit and queer people (LGBTQ). This edited volume seeks to change this discourse by bringing together the most innovative research about intimate partner violence that is specific to the lives of LGBTQ people. Including contributions based on research conducted in the United States, the United Kingdom, Can

Contents:

Introduction: intimate partner violence in LGBTQ lives / Janice L. Ristock

Reframing the heteronormative constructions of lesbian partner violence : an Australian case study / Kierrynn Davis and Nel Glass

The meaning of "risk" for intimate partner violence among women in same-sex relationships / Diane Hiebert-Murphy, Janice L. Ristock and Douglas A. Brownridge

Reflections on approaches to trans anti-violence education / Joshua Mira Goldberg and Caroline White

Exploring emotion work in domestically abusive relationships / Catherine Donovan and Marianne Hester

Beyond good and evil : the social construction of violence in intimate gay relationships / Maurice Kwang-Lai Poon

Women who abuse their female intimate partners / Carrol Smith

Holding tensions of victimization and perpetration : partner abuse in trans communities / Nicola Brown

The impact of minority stress on gay male partner abuse / Jesmen Mendoza

I ain't never been a kid : early violence exposure and other pathways to partner violence for sexual minority men with HIV / David W. Pantalone ... [et al.]

Troubling normalcy : examining "healthy relationships" discourses in lesbian domestic violence prevention / Cindy Holmes

Documenting the Same Sex Abuse Project, Toronto, Canada / Patricia Durish

There's no pride in domestic violence : the same sex domestic violence interagency, Sydney, Australia / Kate Duffy

Running same-sex batterer groups : critical reflections on the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project and the Toronto David Kelley Services' Partner Assault Response Program / Jesmen Mendoza and Diane R. Dolan-Soto

"We are all treaty people" : an anti-oppressive research ethics of solidarity with aboriginal LGBTQ people living with partner violence / Catherine G. Taylor and Janice L. Ristock.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-81207-5

1-136-81208-3

1-283-46112-9

9786613461124

0-203-82897-6

9780203828977

OCLC:

797919225