Intimate Partner Violence and the LGBT+ Community Understanding Powe
Intimate Partner Violence is a serious social problem affecting millions in the United States and worldwide. The image of violence enacted by a male aggressor to a female victim dominates public perceptions of intimate partner violence (IPV). This vo
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Intimate Partner Violence and the LGBT+ Community Understanding Power Dynamics
Intimate Partner Violence and the LGBT+ Community
Brenda Russell Editor
Intimate Partner Violence and the LGBT+ Community Understanding Power Dynamics
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Editor Brenda Russell The Pennsylvania State University, Berks Reading, PA, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-44761-8 ISBN 978-3-030-44762-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44762-5
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Foreword
When I began studying intimate partner violence (IPV) in lesbian relationships in the late 1980s, I often felt quite isolated. There were few other scholars researching the topic, let alone examining the IPV experiences of anyone in a relationship that was not heterosexual and cisgender. I had one trans woman participate in my study, but I was warned against using her responses since, after all, a sample of one is hardly sufficient for drawing reliable and valid conclusions about pretty much anything. I also had to respond to a lot of pushback from various quarters. For one thing, colleagues questioned my focus on such a “narrow” topic; as one asked me publicly following a conference presentation, “Why are you spending time on this? There just isn’t much to study.” Some members of the LGBTQ community also raised concerns about how the research might negatively impact them by possibly reinforcing homophobic and heterosexist stereotypes of LGBTQ relationships as unhealthy. And their concerns were not unfounded, given that the coverage the research received in popular media frequently had undertones of condemnation (of the relationships, not the violence) or voyeurism. I was nevertheless motiv
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