Men's violence against their wives and partners : (Record no. 4085)

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Personal name O'Neill, Jacqueline
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Title Men's violence against their wives and partners :
Remainder of title the state and women's experience, 1960 - 1984
Statement of responsibility, etc Jacqueline O'Neill
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Remainder of title A thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History, Palmerston North, Massey University.
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Date of publication, distribution, etc 2012
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Summary, etc While men’s violence against wives and partners is universal and transhistorical, the various terms used to describe it have been, and remain mutable, constructed and contested. This thesis traces how men’s violence against wives or partners was once constructed as a private or domestic matter and how and why these constructions have changed over time; and what effects, if any, the changes might have had on the way the violence was responded to, and experienced by victims. The thesis is particularly concerned with state practices and how these impacted on women’s capacity to resist a husband’s or partner’s violence. The thesis begins with marriage in the medieval period because marriage and the family have been central to the concept of “domestic” as it emerged in Western society. The principal temporal focus of the thesis is the 1960s – 1984. The 1960s were a period marked by rapid social change that provided a foundation for the construction of “domestic violence” in the 1970s. The thesis ends in 1984, two years after the Domestic Protection Act which marked a radical shift in the construction of men’s violence against wives or partners from a private matter to a public one, and one year after the state began to fund places of refuge for women trying to escape violent partners. The central concern of this thesis is the operation of both dominant and resistant discourses that structured social practices in particular fields that affected women’s capacity to resist violence by a husband or partner. How men’s violence against wives or partners is constructed is crucial to social responses to it and women’s experience of it. Discourse analysis is especially suited to this project because it can reveal which discursive practices created and upheld particular forms of social life. Importantly, a discursive analysis can explain the difference between rhetoric and practice. Although the thesis is underpinned by a legislative trajectory which appears linear and progressive, the discourses which swirl around legislative measures are constantly evolving, sometimes in regressive and internally contradictory ways. Exploring the discursive field of men’s violence against wives or partners provides an understanding of historical actors and practices, and has a contemporary value. Current discourses of domestic violence are shaped by discursive practices that occurred in the period under study. Multiple contesting and contradictory discourses continue to undermine gains made by women in resisting domestic violence today. (Author's abstract)<br/>
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element HISTORY
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Source of heading or term FVC
Topical term or geographic name as entry element WOMEN
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
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Geographic name NEW ZEALAND
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element LAW
Source of heading or term FVC
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10179/3973 ">http://hdl.handle.net/10179/3973 </a>
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