Precarious feminine identities : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of Psychology at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand

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dc.contributor.advisorMorgan, Mandy
dc.contributor.authorWeatherley, Guenevere E. W.
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-11T23:18:30Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-13T20:45:50Z
dc.date.available2022-01-11T23:18:30Z
dc.date.available2022-06-13T20:45:50Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores, from a DeleuzoGuattarian perspective, the motivations that women find for, and the actions they undertake in leaving intimate partner relationships under which they have suffered emotional and physical derogation at the hands of their abusive other. It seeks to investigate and describe their "minoritarian" actions in the context of a DeleuzoGuattarian stylistic and strategic approach towards departing intimate partner violence (IPV). In this, as well as considering particular aspects of Deleuze and Guattari's conceptual apparatus, the study pursues the differences opened up by affirmative engagement with the hopefulness of virtualities, and the "lines of flight" these offer for creative possibilities, enduring connections, and novel - if precarious - identities. The extremes to which the women in this study were pushed reveal the stresses and conflicts in the bid for autonomy and equality inherent in unhappy intimate partner relationships without the frequent rhetoric that masks the difficulties of domestic life. Compounding these women's problems is the fact that there are few obvious avenues for escape for those trapped in abusive situations, limited support for independence, or programmatic advice on the broad social mandate they must negotiate. The women's stories reveal deep fissures in the structures of conventional New Zealand families by showing that the latter cannot accommodate or validate relationships that privilege outmoded gender practices over care, commitment, and opportunity for growth. Their stories articulate social and cultural uncertainties about the unstable positions of women in unequal relationships, that privilege outmoded gender practices over care, commitment, and opportunity for growth. Their stories articulate social and cultural uncertainties about the unstable positions of women in unequal relationships, the physically and emotionally draining demands to which they are subjected, and the struggle to find acceptance in their relationships, which are too often structured not by good will, affection and effort, but by traditional roles and economic hierarchies. The narratives contribute to the conversation on persecuted women's courage and determination to endure and resist, to develop lines of flight and to expand their lives despite intolerable pressures, as well as offering a DeleuzoGuattarian conceptual pragmatic underpinning of action. It shows that assertive independent action engenders empowering becoming, and it suggests that where women initiate schizonanalytic breaks, where they embrace precarity, they can discover creative and fulfilling lives.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/17179
dc.publisherMassey Universityen_US
dc.rightsThe Authoren_US
dc.subjectIntimate partner violenceen
dc.subjectNew Zealanden
dc.subjectAbused womenen
dc.subjectPsychologyen
dc.subjectRehabilitationen
dc.subjectDeleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995en
dc.subjectGuattari, Félix, 1930-1992en
dc.subjectInfluenceen
dc.subjectbecomingen
dc.subjectschizoanalysisen
dc.subjectlines of flighten
dc.subjectmajoritarianen
dc.subjectminoritarianen
dc.subjectmolaren
dc.subjectmolecularen
dc.subjectrhizomeen
dc.subjectdeterritorializationen
dc.subjectdesiring machinesen
dc.subjectbody without organs
dc.subject.anzsrc520399 Clinical and health psychology not elsewhere classifieden
dc.titlePrecarious feminine identities : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of Psychology at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealanden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
massey.contributor.authorWeatherley, Guenevere E. W.en_US
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychologyen_US
thesis.degree.grantorMassey Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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