1. ‘I must get out’: the geographies of domestic violence.
- Author
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Warrington, Molly
- Subjects
DOMESTIC violence ,INTERPERSONAL relations ,FAMILIES ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2001
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