Intimate partner violence is one of the major forms of violence against women, and it contributes to the inability of women to practice safer sex. This study uses a triangulation method to explore the relationship between intimate partner violence and condom use. Secondary data was used for both the quantitative and qualitative analyses. The results from both the quantitative and qualitative analyses revealed that women who report intimate partner violence are less likely to use condom. Other results from the quantitative analysis revealed that women with high socio-economic status are more likely to use condom. However, the qualitative analysis revealed that women experience intimate partner violence irrespective of their socio-economic status. Nevertheless, the two analyses revealed that a woman is less likely to use condom if her partner dislikes it. Moreover, negotiating for condom use could lead to further violence. As a result of this, there is need to target both men and women when addressing the issues of intimate partner violence and safer sex practice. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2003.

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-142). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall/Crozer Theological Seminary, 1998. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-158).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1994.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1994.

Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri--Columbia, 1996. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-73). Also available on the Internet.

This thesis explores how the battered woman attachment to her abusive partner impacts on her interactions with the legal system and non-legal resources. This qualitative research project is based on in-depth interviews conducted with seven abused women who procured interdicts in terms of the Prevention of Family Violence Act 133 of 1993 to restrain their husbands from assaulting them. The research reviews the nature of abuse suffered by the participants, their psychological attachments to their husbands, and their patterns of help-seeking in relation to the law and non-legal resources. Two main theoretical frameworks, psychoanalysis and feminism inform this study. The study found that the participants retained unrealistic hopes that their husbands would reform and become loving, caring partners, and that they treated their husbands with care and sympathy despite their husbands’ often brutal behaviour towards them. The findings suggest that the women’s behaviour towards their husbands was the product of two reality distorting psychological defences, splitting and the moral defence which they used to preserve their attachments to their abusive partners. These defences intersected with rigid patriarchal prescriptions of femininity which dictate that women should be stoically caring towards their husbands, and should hold relationships together no matter what the cost to themselves. The participants interactions with the legal system and with non-legal sources of help were structured by their reliance on splitting and the moral defence, and by the dictates of patriarchal ideology. Whilst it is undoubtedly true that at one level the participants sought help to get protection from abuse, the study shows that their help-seeking was motivated by their conflicting desires to punish and reform their husbands. The participants sought help in ways which enabled them to strike a compromise between expressing their anger at their husbands, whilst simultaneously preserving their psychological attachments to them. The study concludes that the women’s interactions with the law and with other helping resource reflect their attempts to preserve their paradoxical attachments to their husbands, and to stabilise their own fragile sense of self and gender identity.

Submitted by Alison Vanceto (alison-vanceto@hotmail.com) on 2017-03-08T12:32:56Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DissALCG.pdf: 4319054 bytes, checksum: 38c3a165e318a48ef3e66798fe29d3c4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-03-22T13:32:50Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissALCG.pdf: 4319054 bytes, checksum: 38c3a165e318a48ef3e66798fe29d3c4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-03-22T13:33:03Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissALCG.pdf: 4319054 bytes, checksum: 38c3a165e318a48ef3e66798fe29d3c4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-22T13:40:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissALCG.pdf: 4319054 bytes, checksum: 38c3a165e318a48ef3e66798fe29d3c4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / This research presents an analysis about the woman’s constitution in television series, specifically the series The Good Wife in dialogue with fanfiction, which are textual productions of the fans. The approach taken is the bakhtinian one in the sense that the worlds constructs are social and television is a very influential mechanism in society. Thus, issues such as dialogy, speech genres and constitution of the subject are treated, allowing the construction of a theoretical background. Think about women’s presence in society is interesting, since we are in a period in which women are increasingly inserted breaking old paradigms. But it’s also necessary to note that even with the changes, it still has a mindset that sometimes limits such insertion, so be aware enables break with these limitations. / Essa pesquisa traz uma análise acerca da constituição da mulher nos seriados televisivos, mais especificamente o seriado The Good Wife em diálogo com as fanfics, que são as produções textuais dos fãs. A abordagem que se toma é a bakhtiniana no sentido de que as construções de mundo são sociais e que a televisão é um mecanismo de grande influência na sociedade. Assim, temas como dialogia, gêneros do discurso e constituição de sujeito são tratados, permitindo a construção de um referencial teórico. Pensar as questões da presença feminina na sociedade é interessante, visto que estamos em um período em que as mulheres estão cada vez mais inseridas rompendo com antigos paradigmas. Mas também é necessário observar que mesmo com as mudanças, ainda se tem uma mentalidade que por vezes limita essa inserção, de modo que tomar consciência possibilita romper com essas limitações.

This final thesis is about single mothers living in shelters with their children. In the theoretical part of work are defined and desrcribed basic terms as single mother, system of shelters and reasons what kind of single mothers mostly needs help of shelters. The aim of my final thesis was to concentrate on the problems of single mothers in shelters and find out, which services are offered to single mothers. While analyzing this problem also other aspects were watched: from what social background do single mothers come to shelters, what is the most common reason for coming there, what do not they like in shelters, if they have any problems to get used to schedule of shelter and what is the most limiting factor for returning to independent life. For the empiric part of my final thesis was chosen qualitative approach and method of semidirected conversation. At the end of the work were determined steps, based on the analyzed date, which can be used practically.