Quiz 3 Flashcards
Physical and sexual assault
Intimate terrorism
Legislation passed to prosecute perpetrators and protect victims
Violence against women act of 1994
Current and former spouses and dating partners
Intimate partner
Also referred to as the domestic violence spouse abuse wife battering or family violence
Intimate partner violence
A pattern of assaultive in coercive behaviors including physical sexual and psychological attacks as well as economic coercion that adults or adolescence use against their intimate partners
Domestic violence
This occurs as a result of periodic serial conflicts
Situational couple violence
This theory attributes occurrence of intimate partner violence to a patriarchal social structure meaning a system where the children and women have less power than men
Radical feminist sociocultural theory
This theory shuns a male versus female’s approach and instead emphasizes differences among as opposed to between men and women. It recognizes the importance of motherhood and women’s lives and focuses on the complex connections between domestic violence child abuse and mothering
Postmodern feminist theory
This proposes that intimate partner violence is only one form of oppression and social control and that life occurs within an intersection of systems of power and oppression.
Intersectional feminism
This addresses intrapsychic processes that influence interpersonal behavior. Humans are motivated from earliest moments by the need for significant relationships with objects.
Object relations theory
This theory assumes that intimate partner violence can be mutual and systemic in nature. Proposing that women initiate intimate partner violence as often as men do especially in the realm of verbal and emotional abuse.
Gender inclusive theories
In 1768 common-law asserted that a husband can meet his wife as long as the stick was no thicker than his thumb
Rule of thumb
In 1848 women met in New York State to discuss their social religious and civil rights and to begin advocating for equally and freedom from abuse with in their own homes
Seneca Falls convention
In 1920 women won the right to vote
The 19th amendment
In 1966 this organization was formed to represent women
National organization for women NOW