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Identity erasure: women's experiences of living with domestic violence and abuse
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Abstract This article explores the process of 'identity erasure' that is a feature of domestic violence and abuse. Data are taken from semi-structured narrative-style interviews with 14 women who had experienced abuse from a male partner. I draw on Erving Goffman’s (1968) work on 'total institutions'. Goffma... mehr
This article explores the process of 'identity erasure' that is a feature of domestic violence and abuse. Data are taken from semi-structured narrative-style interviews with 14 women who had experienced abuse from a male partner. I draw on Erving Goffman’s (1968) work on 'total institutions'. Goffman uses the term 'mortification' in describing the attacks on identity and self that occur in 'total institutions' such as psychiatric hospitals, prisons and concentration camps. These attacks take the form of: loss of contact with the outside world, ritual degradation, the removal of possessions, and lack of control. Their effect is to erase the inmate's prior identity, and render them compliant. For the women who participated in this study, their abusers attempted to achieve compliance by adopting many of the tactics that Goffman describes. Drawing on participants' words, I discuss some of the behaviours adopted by their abusive partners: isolation from support networks, surveillance, deprivation of privacy, and dispossession. I argue that, for women, the home/abusive relationship becomes a total institution. Understanding the abusive household as a 'total institution' can help friends, family and professionals to more fully appreciate, and therefore provide women with more appropriate help to overcome, the barriers to leaving.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
häusliche Gewalt; Missbrauch; Identität; soziale Isolation; Frau; totale Institution
Klassifikation
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
soziale Probleme
Freie Schlagwörter
domestic violence and abuse (DVA); surveillance
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 271-287
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 7 (2023) 2
Heftthema
Domestic Violence and Abuse
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1332/239868021X16757857695474
ISSN
2398-6808
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung