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‘I must get out’: the geographies of domestic violence.
- Source :
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers . 2001, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p365. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2001
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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]
- Subjects :
- *DOMESTIC violence
*INTERPERSONAL relations
*FAMILIES
*SOCIOLOGY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00202754
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10454404
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5661.00028