TY  - SER
AU  - Towns, Alison
AU  - Adams,Peter J.
TI  - Staying quiet or getting out: some ideological dilemmas faced by women who experience violence from male partners
T2  - British Journal of Social Psychology
SN  - 0144-6665
PY  - 2009///
PB  - British Psychological Society
KW  - FVC
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - FEMINISM
KW  - GENDER
KW  - PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE
KW  - SOCIAL THEORY
KW  - VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - WOMEN
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - NEW ZEALAND
N1  - British Journal of Social Psychology 48(4) December 2009 : 735-754
N2  - Violence against women by men who are their intimate partners is now recognized internationally as a significant problem and one that impacts on social and community development and on the health of women and children. Women commonly report little of this violence. In this paper, we discuss the various socially constructed dilemmas for women that may silence them from talking of such violence. Billig et al.'s (1988) concept of ideological dilemmas emerged as a useful analytic device from which to analyse the discourses of 20 women who had experienced violence from their male partners. In particular, the influence of ideologies of patriarchy and of equity, and ideologies of individualism and collectivism were found to impact on some women's talk of such violence. This research contributes to the current debate on the psychosocial by describing the ways in which ideological dilemmas interweave across the social and the psychological.--Reproduced with permission from British Journal of Social Psychology © The British Psychological Society
UR  - http://dx.doi.org//10.1348/014466608X398762
ER  -