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Open Access 11-04-2024 | Review Article

Queering Family Violence: Introduction to Queer Family Violence Studies

Authors: Marianna Muravyeva, Alexander Sasha Kondakov

Published in: Journal of Family Violence

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It is commonplace for an introduction to any family violence research article to start by quoting statistics and highlighting the prevalence of abuse in the family in various contexts. However, this is not as possible with violence against queer family members: the numbers are barely there for any country, yet alone the world. There are several reasons for such a difference. First, up until very recently, there has been simply no reliable statistics on the incidents of abuse of family members who identify other than heterosexual. In other words, sexual identity in family violence cases would not be (and has not been) a characteristic of official data collection in any country. Second, while there is more and more awareness about hate crime against LGBTQI+ people, this type of violence is often viewed as a separate from family violence issue. Third, the differential treatment of LGBTQI+ people is connected to the still prevailing unintelligibility of the notion of the family as automatically inclusive of queer people in various roles. There is a lack of both theoretical and practical comprehension, that each and every person behind an abbreviation is someone’s child, sibling, partner, and kin and, therefore, is in danger of family abuse as much as any heterosexual person. This special issue deals with all these problems. …

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Title: Queering Family Violence: Introduction to Queer Family Violence Studies
Authors: Marianna Muravyeva
Alexander Sasha Kondakov
Publication date: 11-04-2024
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Family Violence
Print ISSN: 0885-7482
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2851
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-024-00692-1

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