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Dr. Julia T Wood: Too many women in western culture believe their partner abusing them is justifiable, if it is fairy tale romance

As an Asian person that moved to the west, I am amazed by the extend western women goes to, for fairy tale romance.  Despite the west self claim to be the world leader in gender equality and women right, statistic show over 48% of women in the west been in physical or emotional abusive relationship and actively choose to stay in those relationship, if it contain fairy tale romance characteristic.  A number probably higher then region, the west claim to discriminate against women. 

Inductive analysis of in-depth interviews with 20 heterosexual women who had been in violent romantic relationships illuminated women's use of gender and romance narratives to make sense of violent relationships. All participants placed themselves within western culture's primary gender narrative, which prescribes and normalizes dominance and superiority for men and deference and dependence for women. Participants also relied on romance narratives - which entailed both fairy tale and dark versions - to make sense of violence in their relationships. Interrelated beliefs that emerged in the women's talk functioned to legitimize both fairy tale and dark romance narratives. This study  the urgency of weaving alternative gender and romance narratives into the structures and practices of the culture. (Wood, 2014)

Please click on the link below, to visit Dr. Julia T Wood's article

http://spr.sagepub.com/content/18/2/239.short

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