“It’s just kind of this thing that I need to navigate”: Young women’s stories of recoveries after domestic abuse in childhood

Frances, Tanya (2023). “It’s just kind of this thing that I need to navigate”: Young women’s stories of recoveries after domestic abuse in childhood. Violence Against Women, 29(11) pp. 2127–2146.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012221125498

Abstract

Those who experience parental domestic abuse in childhood are affected in multiple ways, but existing research uses a narrow lens, relying on psychotherapeutic and neuroscientific understandings. This article uses a dialogical theory (Hermans, 2001) to explore women’s recovery stories. Interviews were conducted with ten women in England and a voice-centred narrative analysis was used. This article attends to gendered, psychotherapeutic, and neoliberal narrative resources that shaped participants’ stories. It concludes that recoveries after domestic abuse in childhood can be considered as dynamic processes that are individual, as well as shaped by social, political, and relational contexts that shape storytelling practices.

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