@article{ref1,
title="“If I Really Loved Him Enough, He Would Be Okay”",
journal="Violence against women",
year="2000",
author="Towns, Alison and Adams, Peter",
volume="6",
number="6",
pages="558-585",
abstract="Interviews with 20 women point to the significance of culturally endorsed constructions of the perfect-love in maintaining women in relationships with men who use violence against them and in silencing them from talking about the violence. Using a form of discourse analysis based on feminist poststructuralism, we identified some of the contradictory portrayals of love that point to discourses of the perfect-love. It is argued that women may be regulated by the positions created for them by perfect-love discourses to remain silent about their partners' violence. These findings have significance for early intervention and prevention strategies.<p />",
language="",
issn="1077-8012",
doi="10.1177/10778010022182038",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778010022182038"
}