Assault on self: Intimate partner abuse and the contestation of identity

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 108-127

  Allen Collinson, Jacquelyn ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abused men; Domestic violence; Erving Goffman; Intimate partner abuse; Possessional territory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954471973     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: 15338665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/si.2011.34.1.108     Document Type: Article

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