Understanding Abuse in Young People’s Intimate Relationships: Female Perspectives on Power, Control and Gendered Social Norms

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Understanding Abuse in Young People’s Intimate Relationships: Female Perspectives on Power, Control and Gendered Social Norms
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Framing young women’s voices
	‘Doing gender’ and the influence of social norms
	Goffman’s presentation of self
	The research study
	The feminist nature of this research: empowering young women as ‘active agents’
	Young voices: shaping the research tools
	Reflections
2 The nature and patterns of abuse in young intimate relationships
	Naming and defining the issue
	Review of the evidence
	Patterns in prevalence data
	The nature and patterns of abuse
	Coercive control and ‘his mood’
	Sexual coercion and abuse
	Physical violence and abuse
	Reflections
3 Gender norms and young intimate relationship roles
	Gendered norms and attitudes
	Young women’s attitudes to abuse and dating
	Young women’s aspirations for their intimate relationships
	Relationship progression and courtship norms
	Gender norms and relationship roles
	The idea of ‘love’, pleasure and desire
	Reflections: the power of gendered norms
4 The gendered ‘doing of sex’: sexual double standards
	Schooling sexual identities
	Slags and angels: the ‘doing of sex’
	Reflections: diverging paths of attitudes and experiences
5 The nature of online abuse
	Gender norms, online control and surveillance
	Sending ‘nudies’ and ‘nudes’
	Reflections
6 Promoting healthy relationships: a whole-community approach
	Recent debates on prevention education
	Exploring media campaigns
	Developing prevention education
	Barriers to accessing support
	The role of peer support
	Healthy relationship education: a whole-community approach
	Key principles of a whole-community approach
	Whole-community approach toolkit
	Assessment
	Recommendations for programme design in schools
	Programme delivery
7 Active empowerment and reshaping gendered social norms
	Attitudes, gender norms and abuse
	Gender norms, social media and online abuse
	Well-being, identity and abuse
	A whole-community approach
	The future: recommendations for research, policy and practice
		Research
		Policy
		Practice
	Final thoughts
Appendix
Pen pictures: interview participants
Notes
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
References
Index