Domestic Violence

Question 1

What did Mirlees-Black say ?

Answer 1

Found most victims are women - almost 1 in 4 women have been assaulted compared to 1 in 7 men.

Question 2

What did Dobash and Dobash say?

Answer 2

Argues marriage legitimises violence against women and found that violent incidents could be set off by what men see as a challenge to their authority.

Question 3

What did Firestone and Millet say?

Answer 3

Use Dobash and Dobash study to suggest that families use patriarchal and oppress women.

Question 4

What did Coleman say?

Answer 4

Found that women were more likely to have experienced ‘intimite violence’ across four types of abuse (familial, partner, sexual and stalking)

Question 5

What did Yearnshire say?

Answer 5

Found on average women suffer up to 35 assaults before reporting domestic abuse

Question 6

What does Connell say?

Answer 6

Theory of multiple masculinities. ‘Hegamonic masculinity’ is a concept of manhood pushed by ruling ideology but that not all men fit this idea.
Some cooperate with the hegemonic idea while others are marginalised (homosexuals)

Question 7

What did Donovan et al. say?

Answer 7

Studied domestic violence in same-sex relationships.
- 40.1% of females claimed they had been a victim of physical domestic violence
- 35% of males claimed they had been victims of domestic violence