The Significance of Shame in the Lives of Women Who Experience Male Violence

Baker, Helen

doi:10.1007/s10991-013-9134-z

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“…Several others described not wanting to broach the subject with their physician due to feelings of shame. Such feelings of shame in admitting IPV support established findings in violence literature (Baker 2013). In a study conducted by Kramer et al (2004), researchers found that 60% of Englishspeaking women surveyed felt that embarrassment was a barrier to disclosing abuse to a physician or nurse.…”

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Factors influencing rural women's disclosure of intimate partner violence: a qualitative study

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Factors influencing rural women's disclosure of intimate partner violence: a qualitative study

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“…According to Baker (2013), since shame impacts how power is felt throughout the body as a self-regulatory mechanism, empowerment must involve addressing shame. Since IPV relies on shame for control, responding to a woman's disclosure with shaming only extends the violent partner's reach.…”

Section: Examples Of Dis/empowerment Through Service Provisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disabled People and Social Wellbeing

Williams¹,

Zahra²,

Gauci³

2019

Perspectives on Wellbeing

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This chapter presents the concept of dis/empowerment in the context of women victims of intimate partner violence, identifying the act of violence against women as a product of a patriarchal society. The chapter suggests the idea that empowerment is a stepping stone into power, an ability to act or control one's life, that exists within people and communities, that is shared and transferred among members of society, all the while moving between layers of the individual and the collective. The chapter includes a description of the project Stronger Together as an example of the individual impact on the collective. The collective, or community, however does not exist in a vacuum, but is located within patriarchy itself, and therefore the circle of disempowerment and empowerment happen all in one place, raising the question as to whether cultivating individual power based on one's subjective needs is truly possible from the place where we stand.

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“…(p. 97)Practices of shame, such as secrecy and concealment, which became a central feature in women’s experiences, operate as self-regulatory tools upon and through the bodies and minds of individual women. Thus, exploring the social politics of shame may shed light on women’s experiences of oppression, such as male violence or sexual abuse (Baker, 2013; Fontes, 2005). In this paper, however, I would like to focus on practices of shame within the context of maternal experiences and in their role as regulators of maternal investment in a changing world.…”

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confidence: 99%

Between the eye and the gaze: Maternal shame in the novel We Need to Talk about Kevin

Slobodin

2018

Feminism & Psychology

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This paper seeks to understand the social power of maternal shame, using a framework that integrates feminist criticism of contemporary motherhood ideologies with philosophical theories that discuss shame in the broader context of visual perception. By using Lionel Shriver’s (2005) novel We Need to Talk about Kevin, the paper illustrates how shame operates in the interplay between the socio-cultural, gendered ideals of motherhood and mothers’ representations of these ideals. Specifically, the paper suggests that today’s mothers operate under a social gaze that expects them to meet the cultural and moral standards of “good” motherhood. This internalized societal judging gaze and the perception of failing to meet these standards are often the source of maternal shame. In line with philosophical accounts which focus on the primacy of vision in shame, I argue that empathy (“seeing with the eyes of the other”) is the most powerful antidote to shame. While shame is induced by a judging gaze, empathy develops through connected gazes, each acknowledging the other’s subjectivity. Locating shame within a socio-cultural context can provide invaluable insights for psychological research and practice that pay critical attention to positionality, reflexivity, and the power relationships inherent in contemporary motherhood.

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The Significance of Shame in the Lives of Women Who Experience Male Violence

Cited by 11 publications

References 13 publications

Factors influencing rural women's disclosure of intimate partner violence: a qualitative study

Factors influencing rural women's disclosure of intimate partner violence: a qualitative study

Disabled People and Social Wellbeing

Between the eye and the gaze: Maternal shame in the novel We Need to Talk about Kevin

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