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By Ellyn Kaschak

support ease the key affliction of lesbians in abusive relationships!

Why is woman-on-woman violence so usually overlooked or discounted? Intimate Betrayal: family Violence in Lesbian Relationships uncovers the hidden challenge of lesbians who harm the ladies they love. This long-needed e-book brings jointly conception, perform, and examine to indicate new and fruitful how one can comprehend, hinder, and deal with this universal challenge.

Intimate Betrayal offers new empirical study into the mental and sociocultural motives of abuse. As a number of of the bankruptcy authors show, neither conventional feminist theories approximately energy nor heterosexist paradigms clarify the reasons, dynamics, or remedy of this challenge. even though, the recent examine awarded the following indicates worthy diagnostic standards and potent remedies.

Intimate Betrayal analyzes the standards that give a contribution to lesbian household violence, together with:

  • heterosexism and homophobia
  • minority rigidity
  • emotional isolation and shortage of neighborhood ties
  • revictimization of ladies who've formerly suffered abuse

The thorough literature assessment incorporated unearths the paucity of realization that has been paid to this challenge. Intimate Betrayal indicates interesting new types for liberating girls from household violence, together with using medical and neighborhood assets and liberation theology. neighborhood activists, counselors, and psychologists can be intrigued through the insightful research of the foundation factors of lesbian-on-lesbian violence and the dear therapy feedback. Researchers will welcome the recent avenues it opens for extra study.

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