Discrediting Identity Work: Understandings Of Intimate Partner Violence By Transgender Survivors
Abstract
This study explores how individuals can actively work to discredit identity work. We examine eighteen transgender victims’ accounts of intimate partner violence (IPV), providing insight into how abusers undermine victims’ constructions of self-concepts. Our findings illustrate two primary strategies of discrediting identity work: altercasting and targeting sign-vehicles, including controlling through props. Empirically examining the accounts of transgender IPV victims’ experiences contributes to addressing a serious gap in research on transgender IPV victims, while expanding theoretical understandings of processes of discrediting identity work within the context of abusive intimate relationships.
Publication Date
1-2-2017
Publication Title
Deviant Behavior
Volume
38
Issue
1
Number of Pages
1-16
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2016.1189757
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
84975217567 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84975217567
STARS Citation
Guadalupe-Diaz, Xavier L. and Anthony, Amanda Koontz, "Discrediting Identity Work: Understandings Of Intimate Partner Violence By Transgender Survivors" (2017). Scopus Export 2015-2019. 4738.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2015/4738