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Publication details [#26944]

Hydén, Margareta and Imelda Colgan McCarthy. 1994. Woman battering and father-daughter incest dislosure: Discourses of denial and acknowledgment. Discourse & Society 5 (4) : 543–565.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

abuse of language | ambiguity | discourse analysis | legal text | sex

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper argues that the denial of physical abuse experienced and committed by intimates in fact reveals western social and legal discourses' ambiguity in regard to violence and sexual abuse.