‘It’s deemed unmanly’: men’s experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV)

Morgan, Wendy; Wells, M. Gawain

doi:10.1080/14789949.2015.1127986

“…Additionally, both those who have/had male or female partners express that they had no intention or desire to use violence against their partner. This differs from the findings of several other interview studies, which have found that male victims of partner violence perceive themselves as unmanly Morgan and Wells 2016). criticizes structural perspectives that take their starting point in (male) physical and economic supremacy.…”

Section: Some Problems With Structuralist Theorycontrasting

confidence: 99%

“…The other two types are gender symmetric. (Johnson 2006(Johnson , p. 1003 Several researchers have attempted to criticise Johnson's typologies and his emphasis on men's violence against women, and have made increasing efforts to establish that there is far more symmetry between men and women in both situational violence and intimate terrorism than he claims (Morgan and Wells 2016;Dutton 2011;Straus 2011;Hines and Douglas 2010a, b). Straus, for example, works within another theoretical paradigm, claiming that the use of violence must be seen in the light of earlier experiences of violence through which perpetrators have learned to accept violence in childhood, either as victims or as witnesses to violence, and that this can explain the gender symmetry which is found in prevalence studies (Straus 2011).…”

Section: Contemporary Theoretical Debates On Violence In Intimate Relmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Men’s Experiences of Violence in Intimate Relationships

Lien

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Lorentzen²

2019

Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology

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“…Additionally, both those who have/had male or female partners express that they had no intention or desire to use violence against their partner. This differs from the findings of several other interview studies, which have found that male victims of partner violence perceive themselves as unmanly (Bjerkeseth 2010;Morgan and Wells 2016). Seidler (1994Seidler ( , 1997 criticizes structural perspectives that take their starting point in (male) physical and economic supremacy.…”

Section: Some Problems With Structuralist Theorycontrasting

confidence: 67%

The Need to Develop the Established Theory of Partner Violence Further

Lien

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Lorentzen²

2019

Men’s Experiences of Violence in Intimate Relationships

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This chapter opens with a discussion about Johnson’s (2008) concepts of intimate terrorism and situational violence. We found that the majority of the men we interviewed have been subjected to intimate terrorism, which provides the basis for a renewed theorisation of domestic violence. Traditional patriarchal values are not the sole source of such violence. Theories must be expanded to include complex psychological mechanisms and the need for control across genders. The main focus of research within men’s studies to date has been on men as perpetrators; however, our material shows that there is a need for more nuanced research on men as victims to understand masculinity/ies in a contemporary context. It highlights that structural theories about gender must be supplemented with more psychological and phenomenological theories to achieve a greater understanding of domestic violence as a whole.

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“…The other two types are gender symmetric. (Johnson 2006(Johnson , p. 1003 Several researchers have attempted to criticise Johnson's typologies and his emphasis on men's violence against women, and have made increasing efforts to establish that there is far more symmetry between men and women in both situational violence and intimate terrorism than he claims (Morgan and Wells 2016;Dutton 2011;Straus 2011;Hines and Douglas 2010a, b). Straus, for example, works within another theoretical paradigm, claiming that the use of violence must be seen in the light of earlier experiences of violence through which perpetrators have learned to accept violence in childhood, either as victims or as witnesses to violence, and that this can explain the gender symmetry which is found in prevalence studies (Straus 2011).…”

Section: Contemporary Theoretical Debates On Violence In Intimate Relmentioning

confidence: 99%