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Olatunji, Taiwo Isaac; Tola-Adewumi, Oladunni Tolu – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
Intimate partner violence (IPV) against Nigerian nurses in the US is a complex issue intersecting gender, occupation, culture, economics, and migration. This study adopts an intersectional feminist and adult learning framework to explore the causes and potential solutions. Drawing on a thematic analysis of ten media reports and commentaries on…
Descriptors: Nurses, Family Violence, Gender Differences, Interpersonal Relationship
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Hamamra, Bilal Tawfiq – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2018
In addition to the methodology of new historicism, this article deploys feminism, performance studies and presentism to discuss the effects of the masculine practice of enforced marriage and turning a deaf ear to the female voice in Thomas Middleton's "Women Beware Women" and contemporary Palestine. I explain that Middleton's "Women…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Gender Differences, Females, Males
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Melton, Heather C.; Sillito, Carrie Lefeve – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
The role of gender in intimate partner abuse (IPA) perpetration and victimization has been debated for the last several decades. Two perspectives have emerged regarding this debate. Researchers from the family violence perspective argue that men and women are violent at near equal rates and call for a reframing of the issue from one of woman…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Researchers, Gender Differences, Role
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Hoffman, Kristi L.; Kiecolt, K. Jill; Edwards, John N. – Journal of Family Issues, 2005
This study develops and tests a theoretical model to explain sibling violence based on the feminist, conflict, and social learning theoretical perspectives and research in psychology and sociology. A multivariate analysis of data from 651 young adults generally supports hypotheses from all three theoretical perspectives. Males with brothers have…
Descriptors: Siblings, Family Violence, Young Adults, Parent Child Relationship