Narratives of Childhood Domestic Violence

Narratives of Childhood Domestic Violence explores young women's accounts of transitions to young adulthood after domestic abuse in childhood, from a psychological perspective.

Autorentext

Tanya Frances is a lecturer in psychology and counselling at The Open University, UK. She is also a counsellor and psychotherapist in practice. Her research interests and expertise centre around trauma, social inequalities, gender-based violence and domestic violence and abuse. She is a founding member of the Intersectional Violences Research Group, an international group of academics interested in addressing issues around gender-based violence from a feminist psychological perspective.

Klappentext

Narratives of Childhood Domestic Violence explores young women's accounts of transitions to young adulthood after domestic abuse in childhood, from a psychological perspective.

Inhalt

1. The beginning 2. Domestic violence in children's lives 3. A feminist psychological perspective on memory, gender and voice/s 4. Interviewing women and working with poems 5. Transitions 6. Recoveries 7. Precarious work and creative assemblages of voice/s 8. Toward epistemic justice: embodied and reflexive listening 9. Staying with and looking ahead