Re-Theorizing Intimate Partner Violence through Post-Structural Feminism, Queer Theory, and the Sociology of Gender

Clare Cannon, Katie Lauve-Moon and Fred Buttell
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Clare Cannon: School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
Katie Lauve-Moon: School of Social Work, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
Fred Buttell: School of Social Work, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA

Social Sciences, 2015, vol. 4, issue 3, 1-20

Abstract: In this article, we apply three theoretical frameworks, poststructural feminism, queer, and sociology of gender to the issue of intimate partner violence (IPV) in order to better account for heterosexual female perpetration and same-sex IPV. Although the traditional feminist paradigm—that assumes men use violence as an extension of patriarchy against their female victims—has been useful in explaining some instances of IPV, it does not adequately frame instances of heterosexual female perpetration and IPV in same-sex relationships. Therefore, in this article we seek to add to existing literature by re-theorizing IPV using poststructural feminism, queer, and sociology of gender perspectives, and their attendant understanding of power as dynamic, fluid, and relational and gender as both interactional and structural, in order to open up new ways of framing IPV and encourage new lines of empirical research resulting in better policy proscriptions and treatment interventions.

Keywords: IPV; heteronormativity; theory; sociology of gender; poststructuralist feminism; queer; LGBT; hegemonic masculinity; gender structure; doing gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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