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A Consumer-Behavior Perspective on Intimate Partner Violence

University of South Florida

Ronald Paul Hill

University of South Florida

James W. Gentry

University of South Florida

This research examines women’s experiences of and responses to intimate partner violence using the perspective of the extended self. From in-depth interviews with a demographically diverse group of women in the United States, the primary theme to emerge was that chronic abuse is experienced as the male partner’s ongoing campaign to incorporate the abused woman into his extended self, by appropriating or destroying the aspects of her that give her autonomy. The most important implication for agencies serving abused women is that many of their clients are faced with the daunting task of repairing or reconstructing their core and extended selves, a process that may necessitate the long-term commitment of agency resources without the imposition of restricted, institutionally imposed identities that would serve only to impede clients’ reclamation of their autonomy.

Key Words: consumption • extendedself • domesticviolence • socialservices

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