TY - JOUR
T1 - Voices of strength and resistance
T2 - A contextual and longitudinal analysis of women's responses to battering
AU - Campbell, Jacquelyn
AU - Rose, Linda
AU - Joan, Kub
AU - Nedd, Daphne
PY - 1998/12
Y1 - 1998/12
N2 - An ethnically and economically heterogeneous (majority well educated, African American,and (poor) urban community sample of women, self-identified as having a serious problem in an intimate relationship, were interviewed three times over 2 1/2 years. The inclusion criteria of battering was repeated physical and/or sexual assault within a context of coercive control. Feminist action research was used, combining interview and measurement instruments. Thematic analysis (coding, clustering, "subsuming particulars into the general," confirming) was used for a random subset of 31 women's in-depth interviews. The patterns of response identified were complicated and iterative, demonstrating resistance and resourcefulness. A process of achieving nonviolence was identified for most of the participants, although relationship status did not necessarily correspond to abuse status and there was continued violence after leaving the relationship. Identifiable themes included (a) active problem solving, including conscious decisions to "make do" in a relationship and/or subordinate the self; (b) responding to identifiable pivotal events, and (c) a negotiating process first with the self and then, directly and/or indirectly, with the male partner.
AB - An ethnically and economically heterogeneous (majority well educated, African American,and (poor) urban community sample of women, self-identified as having a serious problem in an intimate relationship, were interviewed three times over 2 1/2 years. The inclusion criteria of battering was repeated physical and/or sexual assault within a context of coercive control. Feminist action research was used, combining interview and measurement instruments. Thematic analysis (coding, clustering, "subsuming particulars into the general," confirming) was used for a random subset of 31 women's in-depth interviews. The patterns of response identified were complicated and iterative, demonstrating resistance and resourcefulness. A process of achieving nonviolence was identified for most of the participants, although relationship status did not necessarily correspond to abuse status and there was continued violence after leaving the relationship. Identifiable themes included (a) active problem solving, including conscious decisions to "make do" in a relationship and/or subordinate the self; (b) responding to identifiable pivotal events, and (c) a negotiating process first with the self and then, directly and/or indirectly, with the male partner.
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U2 - 10.1177/088626098013006005
DO - 10.1177/088626098013006005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032351931
SN - 0886-2605
VL - 13
SP - 743
EP - 762
JO - Journal of Interpersonal Violence
JF - Journal of Interpersonal Violence
IS - 6
ER -