The ways in which men negotiate contradictory discourses to accommodate their domestic violence into their sense of self forms the focus of this thesis. The sixty-six men interviewed for this thesis had attended a twelve-week group in an attempt to stop their violence. Forty-two of their women partners also agreed to be interviewed. Overall two hundred and fifty-nine interviews were conducted with these men and their women partners. The men were found to draw on various competing discourses in their constructions of themselves. One of the sources was the print media. A content analysis of newspaper articles over a period of twenty years revealed that popular representations of domestic violence have increased over time and have privileged physical forms of violence. Representations of the perpetrator of domestic violence featured hegemonic forms of masculinity, emphasising the physicality of men's bodies. Although the men interviewed here had agreed to attend a professional course for violent perpetrators, they were selective in which professional discourses they used to explain their own violence. The thesis outlines legal, medical and human services discourses, focusing on selected interventions, and identifies weaknesses such as the use of prescriptive definitions of domestic violence and the reliance on women to report on their own and their partner's feelings and behaviours. Finally, women's and men's own representations of their experiences revealed that the domestic relationship is a complex entity - where contradictory scripts for masculinity and femininity are acted out. Feminist and masculinity theories of power and subjectivity are coupled with Foucauldian thought to provide a theoretical framework capable of untangling the contradictory issues expressed in these discursive spaces. A key contradiction occurs between an aspect of the male gender role discourse in which men are expected to 'look out for number one', which requires enacting high levels of self-control and control-over others. This is juxtaposed with the desire for men to exercise non-violent forms of control and an ethic of care for others as well as themselves. Even though women are often identified as the caregivers in the family, a significant finding of this thesis was that violent men work relentlessly to construct themselves as the ethical partner. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--School of Social Sciences, 2004.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 303-326). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005.

A study on the Law of Retribution concept and the literature skills of ¡mXing-Shi Yin Yuan Chuan¡n Abstract ¡mXing-Shi Yin Yuan Chuan¡nis a vernacular fiction mainly about human feeling and events in Ming and Ching dynasties¡CAlthough the term ¡uYIN YUAN¡v usually refers to romance and marriages¡Athe novel portrays not only love affairs and matrimony but also the reality of family life in the feudal society¡Ageneral observation of gentlemen¡Bgovernment officials¡Bbusinessmen¡Band servants¡Acan also be found in the book¡Areflecting various aspects of real life and the complicacy of human natures¡C This paper is divided into six chapters¡GChapter One brings out the study motivation¡Adirection¡Aand scope¡Aas well as general introducing the present related references to describe the current study situation¡CChapter Two collects and studies who the author is¡HTime background and the orientation of the book¡CChapter Three talks about the author¡¦s ideas on ¡ucausality¡v¡AThe thought of ¡ucausality¡vcover the ideologies of Buddhism¡BTaoism¡Band Confucianism¡Areflecting the miscellaneous¡ucausality¡vvalues in the book¡C Chapter Four extends the various¡ucausality¡vvalues¡Aand points out the conflicts between the¡ucausality¡vpresentations¡Awhich reveal the author¡¦s internal contradiction towards the values¡CChapter Five analyzes the character molding skills¡Awhich draw a lot of interest¡CIt praises the portraying of the characters and the outstanding polishing skills as each typical role is vividly presented¡CChapter Six concludes and outlines the varied values and meaning¡AIt also mentions the short-comings and the researcher's suggestions on future related study directions¡Ain order to draw more academic attentions¡C ¡mXing-Shi Yin Yuan Chuan¡nis based on a chaotic family¡Aironically describing the fallen morality and disordered ethnics during Ming and Ching dynasties¡CThe nearly sick brutality between the couple shows the family violence at that time¡Athis is definitely an earthly novel worth recommending¡C Keywords¡Gromance¡Bcausality¡Bfamily violence¡Bearthly novel¡C

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ball State University, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Nov. 12, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-121).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Texas at Arlington, 2008.

Thesis (M.S.)--Marshall University, 2001. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 78 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-61).

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Texas at Arlington, 2008.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002. / Supervisor: Allen Rubin. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available from UMI.