Investigating the discourses women draw on to understand violence in intimate relationships

De la Harpe, Kim

Investigating the discourses women draw on to understand violence in intimate relationships

Master Thesis

2010

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department

Department of Psychology

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Abstract

The rate of violence against women by intimate male partners is extremely high in South Africa. Although violence against women has been researched from a variety of perspectives, little research has been done in South Africa on the discourses that women draw on to understand the violence. This research investigated how women in violent relationships make meaning out of the violence by examining the discourses that women draw on to understand the violence. Using feminist post-structuralist theory as the epistemological framework, a discourse analysis was conducted on seven in-depth interviews with heterosexual women who had been in violent romantic relationships.

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Includes abstract.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-92).

Keywords

Clinical Psychology

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