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Love and Violence: Gender Paradoxes in Volatile Attachments
Author(s) -
GOLDNER VIRGINIA,
PENN PEGGY,
SHEINBERG MARCIA,
WALKER GILLIAN
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1990.00343.x
Subject(s) - psychology , human factors and ergonomics , social psychology , poison control , sociology , developmental psychology , gender studies , medical emergency , medicine
This article presents a multidimensional, theoretical model for the understanding of relationships in which men are violent toward women. It argues that abusive relationships exemplify, in extremis, the stereotypical gender arrangements that structure intimacy between men and women generally. Moreover, it proposes that paradoxical gender injunctions create insoluble relationship dilemmas that can explode in violence. A multifaceted approach to treatment, which incorporates feminist and systemic ideas and techniques, is described.