The Normalization of Violence in Heterosexual Romantic Relationships: Women's Narratives of Love and Violence

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Monsters and victims: Male felons’ accounts of intimate partner violence (2004, methodology): “Following previously published thematic analyses (Owen, 1984, 1985; Shank-Krusciewitz & Wood, 2001; Wood, 2001), two standards were applied to data: (i) to count as a theme in a given participant’s interview, an idea must recur a minimum of three times; and (ii) to count as a theme across participan”
Stand by Your Man (2009, background): “Applied to romantic relationships, this moral refinement and superiority implies both accepting or at least tolerating males’ less refined (e.g., aggressive) manners and celebrating women’s ability to nurse, tame, or civilize these men, even in the face of abuse (Wood, 2001).”
`If the Man Says you Must Sit, Then you Must Sit': The Relational Construction of Woman Abuse: Gender, Subjectivity and Violence (2008, background): “The romantic narrative provides the space for women to construct stories of the beginning of their relationships as typical of fairytales – the princess who was swept off her feet by ‘Prince Charming’ (Jackson, 2001; Wood, 2001).”