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‘I must get out’: the geographies of domestic violence
Author(s) -
Warrington Molly
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/1475-5661.00028
Subject(s) - trace (psycholinguistics) , domestic violence , sociology , criminology , gender studies , geography , suicide prevention , poison control , medical emergency , medicine , philosophy , linguistics
The geographies of domestic violence are envisaged in this paper as a series of enlarging, though restricted spaces. Although the social construction of home is as a place of safety and support, in reality it can be a place of violence, where women are spatially restricted either to the home itself, or to its immediate environs. Women who break free and seek safety in a women's refuge, or who move to a new home in a different place, continue to live spatially restricted lives, in the fear that their former partner may trace them.