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040			_aWSS _dAFV
100			_aO'Neill, Damian _91839
245			_aDomestically violent men speak : _ba post-structuralist critique _cO'Neill, Damian
260			_aPalmerston North _bDepartment of Sociology, Massey University _c2000
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520			_aThis article presents the results of a study critically exploring men's accounts of their violence to their female partners. Thirteen New Zealand men attending a Stopping Violence programme who had physically assaulted their spouses in the home were interviewed. A Foucauldian post-structuralist framework was used to discursively analyse the interviews. Themes in the way in which the men construct their violence were identified. Analysis revealed two predominant discourses in the men's accounts of their abuse: the dominant story is one of inner tension overwhelming the man to the point where he loses control. This interpretation of the men's own constructions is further analysed and reveals two predominant discursive resources: romantic 'expressive tension' and personal 'pathology'. In a second story, men constructed their partner's behaviour as pushing the men's tension levels to violence. These accounts are theorised in their own terms and the implications of these narrative structures for understanding and intervening in men's domestic violence are discussed. The research itself transformed the author from looking at men's violence from a feminist perspective to a more eclectic approach. It is suggested that new forms of gender, which step outside a language that uses a bi-polar discourse, may construct violence differently.
650	2	7	_aABUSIVE MEN _926
650	2	7	_aATTITUDES _970
650	2	7	_aCULTURAL ISSUES _9177
650	2	7	_2FVC _aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE _9203
650	2	7	_aGENDER _9269
650	2	7	_2FVC _aGENDER DIFFERENCE _9270
650	2	7	_2FVC _aINTERVENTION _9326
650	2	7	_2FVC _aOFFENDERS _9413
650	2	7	_aPERPETRATOR PROGRAMMES _92951
650	2	7	_2FVC _aSTATISTICS _9575
650	2	7	_9431 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE _2FVC
651		4	_aNEW ZEALAND _92588
500			_aNew Zealand Sociology 15(1) 2000 : 1-29
650	2	7	_9458 _aPREVENTION _2FVC
773	0		_tNew Zealand Sociology 15(1) 2000 : 1-29
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