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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170983403321

Autore

Ristock Janice L (Janice Lynn)

Titolo

No more secrets [[electronic resource] ] : violence in lesbian relationships / / Janice L. Ristock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2002

ISBN

1-135-95635-9

1-878067-00-1

0-203-80083-4

0-203-80079-6

1-280-07197-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

305.48/96643

Soggetti

Lesbian partner abuse

Abused lesbians

Abusive lesbian partners

Lesbian couples

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; NO MORE SECRETS: violence in lesbian relationships; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE: Bearing Witness; ONE The Emergence of Lesbian Partner Abuse: Creating a New Category; TWO Troubling Tales: Telling Stories, Exposing Language, Raising Questions; A MATERiAL TALE: telling stories; THREE What the Body Remembers: Lesbians' Experiences of Relationship Violence; FOUR An Innocence Lost: Responses to Violence; A DISCURSIVE TALE: exposing language; FIVE What's Written on the Body; SIX The Politics of Responding to Violence in Lesbian Relationships; A REFLEXIVE TALE: raising questions

SEVEN Looking ForwardNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Violence is a male biological trait. When women fight, no one gets seriously hurt. Lesbians don't abuse their spouses. The truth revealed in Janice Ristock's groundbreaking book is that lesbian relationships sometimes do turn violent. Based on interviews with more than one hundred lesbians who have suffered abuse and seventy-five case



workers, No More Secrets is the first in-depth account of this startling phenomenon. Although one in four gay and lesbian couples are affected by domestic violence, the problem has remained hidden for several reasons. By giving voice to the victims, Ristock he