TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Christianity and domestic violence - Feminist poststructuralist perspectives
JO  - Affilia
A1  - Wendt, Sarah
SP  - 144
EP  - 155
VL  - 23
IS  - 2
N2  - Research has shown that spiritual and religious identification plays a role in defining women's experiences of violence and therefore that social workers need to acknowledge and create safe spaces to talk about this identification. This article describes a rural Australian study that focused on the impact of a local culture on domestic violence, in which Christianity strongly influenced women's experiences of violence. It is argued that looking at women's experiences of domestic violence through a feminist poststructuralist lens is valuable because it provides a framework for exploring and sensitively challenging oppressive discourses that inform women's identities.<p /> 
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SN  - 0886-1099
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886109908314326
ID  - ref1
ER  -