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‘I must get out’: the geographies of domestic violence

2001; Wiley; Volume: 26; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/1475-5661.00028

1475-5661

Molly Warrington,

Urban Planning and Governance

The geographies of domestic violence are envisaged in this paper as a series of enlarging, though restricted spaces. Although the social construction of home is as a place of safety and support, in reality it can be a place of violence, where women are spatially restricted either to the home itself, or to its immediate environs. Women who break free and seek safety in a women's refuge, or who move to a new home in a different place, continue to live spatially restricted lives, in the fear that their former partner may trace them.