My dissertation is based on decades of foundational works that have emphasized the
entrenchment of securing intimate relationships with achieving one's sense of self (-worth) …

Our work examines when young women who have experienced abuse choose to (not)
speak out and what creates the conditions for (not) doing so. We interviewed 17 …

Scholars have long explored the expectations of women to maintain intimate relationships
and the gendered discourses governing those expectations. Despite the dating landscape …

Silence permeates intimate spaces. For years, intimate silences such as sexual abuse and
harassment–in Hollywood and in less glamorous or public places such as the office or the …

This is a study of how heterosexual girls construct the meaning of their health issues within
their dating relationships. We found that a number of barriers contributed to girls' difficulty …

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Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression Page 8 How Can I …

In this article, we consider how heterosexual young people navigate emotionality in their
early dating practices. We draw on the 'cold intimacy'thesis (;;;) that posits that emotions …

Our essay discusses the discursive contexts that support the silencing, both individual and
societal, of discussions about men's violence towards their women partners. This work aims …

This article challenges disempowering stereotypes about Other Women by investigating
how they negotiate power in imbalanced romantic relationships. This study defines an Other …

Men who experience intimate partner abuse have been described as 'marginalised'(
Migliaccio, 2001),'unbelievable'(Corbally, 2011) and 'unmanly'(Morgan and Wells, 2016) …