Queering Narratives of Domestic Violence and Abuse

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 domesticviolence and abuse.

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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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Contents
1Introduction1.1Introduction1.2Key Concerns of this Book1.3Researching IPVA in the Relationships of LGB and/or T+ People: Stories of Invisibility1.4Correlating Factors with Perpetration of IPVA1.5The Relevance of Feminist Theory1.5.1 Developing the Public Story of DVA1.5.2 Relationship Rules and Practices of Love1.6The Context of Homo/Bi/Transphobia and Heterosexism and its Consequences1.6.1 Identity Abuse1.7The Gender Symmetry/Asymmetry Debate as the Context for this Research1.7.1 Typologies of IPVA1.7.2 Telling a Different Story About 'Mutual Abuse'1.7.3 Space for Reaction 1.8Telling an Ecological, Intersectional Story1.9SummaryReferences
2Producing Stories About Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse: The Coral Project Methodology2.1Introduction2.2Researching IPVA: Methods and Measures2.2.1 How IPVA is Defined and Conceptualised2.2.2 Methodologies and Measures for Producing Knowledge about IPVA2.2.3 Sampling and Heteronormative, Cisnormative Assumptions in IPVA Research2.3The Coral Project's Methodology2.3.1 The Survey2.3.2 Follow-up Interviews2.4Insights from Triangulating Survey and Interview Data2.5SummaryReferences
3Queering Quantitative Stories of Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse3.1Introduction3.2Queering 'Headline' Prevalence Figures (1): Bringing LGB and/or T+ People in 3.2.1 Gender, Sexuality and Age Patterns3.3Queering 'Headline' Prevalence Figures (2): The Nature of LGB and/or T People's Use of Violence and 'Abusive' Behaviours3.4Queering Typologies of IPVA3.4.1 Moving Beyond Treating 'Perpetrators' as a Homogenous Group: Identifying Sub-Groups3.4.2 Looking for Johnson's Typology in the Coral Project Data 3.5SummaryReferences
4Barriers to Recognising Domestic Violence and Abuse: Power, Resistance and the Re-Storying of 'Mutual Abuse'4.1Introduction4.2Using Johnson's Typology to Categorise Qualitative Accounts of IPVA4.3'Mutual Abuse'/Bi-Directional Violence and a Reified Victim/Perpetrator Binary: Patricia's Story4.4Barriers to Recognition of Victimisation: the Victim/Perpetrator Binary: Marcus' Story4.5Patriarchal Influences in the Relationships of LGB and/or T+ People: Colin's Story4.6Resistance as Demeanour: Clare's Story4.7A Planned Resistance: Amy's Story4.8SummaryReferences
5Hearing a New Story About Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse5.1Introduction5.2The Current Policy and Practice Context for Responding to LGB and/or T+ DVA5.3Participants' Support Needs 5.4Help-Seeking Behaviour 5.5Unmet Needs and Participants' Views on Gaps in Support Provision 5.6Involving a Wider Range of Relationships Services in Preventing and Responding to LGB and/or T+ People's Experiences of IPVA5.6.1 Recognising and Responding to Different Types of Violence and Abuse5.6.2 Providing LGBT+ Inclusive Services5.6.3 Supporting LGB and/or T+ People at the Intersections5.7SummaryReferences
6Conclusion: Telling Different Stories About Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse6.1Introduction6.2Key Findings6.3Setting a Research Agenda for Furthering Understanding of IPVA Within LGB and/or T+ People's Intimate Relationships6.4The Importance of Intersectionality and Hearing a Wider Range of Stories About LGB and/or T+ People's Experiences of IPVA6.5A Final Note: Speaki...