@article{ref1,
title="Drawing the line: how African, Caribbean and White British women live out psychologically abusive experiences",
journal="Violence against women",
year="2013",
author="Rivas, Carol and Kelly, Moira and Feder, Gene",
volume="19",
number="9",
pages="1104-1132",
abstract="This study explores how African, Caribbean and White British women worked to hide psychological partner abuse as they experienced it, &quot;do gender,&quot; and appear competent in social roles. They prioritized negotiated competencies as &quot;good partners,&quot; actively setting socially and culturally embedded boundaries to their abuser's behaviors: an inner boundary encompassing normal behaviors and an outer one of &quot;acceptable&quot; behaviors projected as normal through remedial work. Behaviors breaching the outer boundary (e.g., if the women narrowed the bounds of the &quot;acceptable&quot;) compromised the women's competence. This sometimes led them to actively use support services. Appropriate advice and support may change the boundaries.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1077-8012",
doi="10.1177/1077801213501842",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801213501842"
}