Queering Narratives of Domestic Violence and Abuse

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   • Catherine Donovan, Rebecca Barnes

   Pages 1-32

3. Producing Stories About Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse: The Coral Project Methodology

   • Catherine Donovan, Rebecca Barnes

   Pages 33-61

4. Queering Quantitative Stories of Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse

   • Catherine Donovan, Rebecca Barnes

   Pages 63-96

5. Barriers to Recognising Domestic Violence and Abuse: Power, Resistance and the Re-storying of ‘Mutual Abuse’

   • Catherine Donovan, Rebecca Barnes

   Pages 97-124

6. Hearing a New Story About Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse

   • Catherine Donovan, Rebecca Barnes

   Pages 125-159

7. Conclusion: Telling Different Stories About Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse

   • Catherine Donovan, Rebecca Barnes

   Pages 161-171

8. Back Matter

   Pages 173-191

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This book is the first to focus on violent and/or ‘abusive’ behaviours in lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender, non-binary gender or genderqueer people’s intimate relationships. It provides fresh empirical data from a comprehensive mixed-methods study and novel theoretical insights to destabilise and queer existing narratives about intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA). Key to the analysis, the book argues, is the extent to which Michael Johnson’s landmark typology of IPVA can be used to make sense of the survey data and accounts of ‘abusive’ behaviours given by LGB and/or T+ participants. As well as calling for IPVA scholars to challenge heteronormativity and cisnormativity and improve IPVA measurement, this book offers guidance and a new tool to assist practitioners from a variety of relationships services with identifying victims/survivors and perpetrators in LGB and/or T+ people’s relationships. It will appeal to academics and practitioners in the field of domestic violence and abuse.​

• LGBT
• violence
• domestic violence
• victim
• intimate partner relationship
• research methods
• social policy
• youth work
• johnson's typology
• survey methodology
• intimate relationships
• perpetrator
• ethnicity, class, gender and crime
• violence and crime
• gender and sexuality

• Durham University, Durham, UK

  Catherine Donovan

• University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

  Rebecca Barnes

Catherine Donovan is Professor in Sociology at Durham University, UK. She has been researching the intimate and family lives of LGB and, more recently T+ people for over thirty years. Most recently she has been focussed on experiences and uses of intimate partner violence and abuse. Other work includes on hate crime, particularly on hate relationships, and campus safety. 

Rebecca Barnes has been researching and teaching about domestic violence and abuse for more than 15 years, focussing especially on LGB and/or T+ people’s relationships, and more recently on domestic abuse and the church. She is Senior Research Advisor in Qualitative and Social Research Methods for the NIHR Research Design Service (East Midlands), based at the University of Leicester, UK. 

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