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

Socpus ID

84975217567 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84975217567

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