TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - “If I Really Loved Him Enough, He Would Be Okay”
JO  - Violence against women
A1  - Towns, Alison
A1  - Adams, Peter
SP  - 558
EP  - 585
VL  - 6
IS  - 6
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 1077-8012
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778010022182038
ID  - ref1
ER  -