Writing the Male Abuser in Cultural Responses to Domestic Violence in Spain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9866304 |
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| Authors | Shelley Godsland (0009-0008-6260-0972, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-64 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2133 • E-ISSN: 2153-6414 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/hpn.2012.a469666 |
| PMID | 22834049 |
| OpenAlex | W2107540391 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The article analyzes the portrayal of the male perpetrator of heterosexual domestic violence in a selection of contemporary Spanish texts (novel, drama, and autobiography) that form part of a clearly discernible cultural response to the issue of intimate partner violence in Spain today. It reads the figure of the abuser in conjunction with a range of primarily Spanish studies on domestic aggression, with the aim of showing how and why the chosen authors engage with bodies of theory that address battery. The study concludes that some cultural producers devise a strategy of eliding the male aggressor in an attempt to subvert the power he wields over the female victim
Aggression · Art · Criminology · Domestic violence · Drama · Literature · Poison control · Power (physics) · Sociology · Gender and Feminist Studies · Gender Studies · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Latin American Literature Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Spanish Culture and Identity
| Highly cited | No |
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