Citation

Lowe P, Humphreys C, Williams SJ. Violence Against Women 2007; 13(6): 549-561.

Affiliation

Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801207301556

PMID

17515405

Abstract

The management of sleep is embedded within the social context of individuals' lives. This article is based on an exploratory study using focus groups of the sleep problems encountered by 17 women survivors of domestic violence. It argues that fear becomes the organizing framework for the management of sleep and illustrates how this takes place both while living with the perpetrators of violence and after the women have been rehoused. It argues that sleep deprivation is a method used by the perpetrators to exert control over women and that this has long-term implications for women's physical and mental health.

Language: en