Introduction 1. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle 2. Images of Relationship 3. Concepts of Self and Morality 4. Crisis and Transition 5. Women's Rights and Women's Judgment 6. Visions of Maturity References Index of Study Participants General Index

In a Different Voice. Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA (Harvard University Press) 1982.

In Western society, tattoos have historically signified deviance and those who were tattooed were often stigmatized as a result. Extant research examines the nature of stigma and identifies a number of stigma management strategies adopted by people with tattoos. However, this research was conducted at a time when tattoo art was largely confined to particular groups and members of society. In recent years tattooing has transformed dramatically, such that the practice has become commodified and embedded in everyday production and consumption practices. Consequently, our study examines the changing nature of tattoo-related stigma, and the subsequent impact this has had on the strategies employed by consumers to manage this stigma. Emerging stigma management strategies are identified and discussed within the context of an emergent stigma, the “stigma of the commodity.”

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A deviant art : tattoo-related stigma in an era of commodification.

Awareness and detection of the co-occurrence of interparental violence and child abuse: Child welfare worker's perspective

La violence conjugale est un probleme social grave et persistant ; le tiers des femmes de la planete en a deja ete victime. Cet article vise a discuter des liens empiriques et theoriques entre les violences conjugales, familiales et structurelles. L’article debutera par une breve mise en contexte decrivant comment la violence conjugale s’est construite comme un probleme socio-penal au Quebec. Les principales lacunes des connaissances actuelles dans le domaine seront ensuite identifiees, demontrant ainsi la necessite de mieux comprendre les liens complexes entre les violences conjugales, familiales et structurelles, trois concepts dont les definitions pourraient s’enrichir et se completer mutuellement. Cet article soulignera l’importance de prendre en consideration les realites diversifiees auxquelles sont confrontes les acteurs concernes par ces violences (femmes, hommes et enfants), en privilegiant une analyse globale qui integre non seulement les facteurs individuels et interpersonnels, mais aussi les facteurs sociaux et structurels, notamment les oppressions liees au genre ou a d’autres marqueurs de l’identite sociale. La discussion sera enrichie par des modeles theoriques decrivant les differentes dynamiques de violences conjugales et familiales ainsi que par le feminisme intersectionnel, qui s’avere fort utile pour l’analyse des violences structurelles. La conclusion traitera des retombees potentielles d’une analyse des liens entre les violences conjugales, familiales et structurelles sur les politiques sociales et les programmes d’intervention pour les victimes, les agresseurs et les enfants exposes a la violence conjugale.

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Les violences conjugales, familiales et structurelles : vers une perspective intégrative des savoirs

This paper describes how the findings of two nationally representative Canadian surveys on woman abuse were taken up by both academics and the media. It puts the surveys in the context of debates about feminist epistemology and measurement. This context does now, however, fully account for the ways in which the findings were mobilized for apparently different purposes. Using a governmentality perspective, the paper illustrates the parallels between the way in which anti‐violence policies and the surveys have constituted the problem of woman abuse in ways that facilitate a particular form of governing gender. The paper argues that the wider shift to neo‐liberal forms of governance must be considered by feminists who count woman abuse in order to avoid contributing to this shift. The paper concludes with ways to undertake survey research on woman abuse.

Counting woman abuse: a cautionary tale of two surveys

The present discourse on symmetry of violence between partners originates in the results of surveys primarily using one type of instrument, the Conflict Tactics Scales (Straus, 1979). An examination of the critiques that have been formulated and of the justifications given by the authors of the instrument suggests that symmetry is a result of a specific representation of action constructed by the instrument. Comparing the protocols and results of four large surveys in Canada, England and the United States, the authors underline the importance of taking into account severity in the measurement of violence.



Le theme de la symetrie de la violence dans le couple et les relations amoureuses se fonde sur les enquetes realisees principalement avec un instrument, le Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS) (Straus, 1979) ou d'instruments similaires. L'examen de l'argumentation methodologique du CTS signale que celui-ci construit une representation particuliere de Taction violente basee exclusivement sur le geste physique. A partir d'une comparaison des plus importantes enquetes nationales sur le sujet, cet article soutient l'importance d'une mesure de la violence qui tienne compte de la gravite des situations.

Françoise Guay

Papers

La question de la symétrie dans les enquêtes sur la violence dans le couple et les relations amoureuses

Preventing violence against girls. should programs be gender-specific?

Prévention de la violence envers les filles. les programmes doivent-ils etre spécifiques selon le genre ?