Journal article
How gambling by a male partner contributes to intimate partner violence against women: a gendered perspective
International Gambling Studies, Vol.22(1), pp.82-101
11/09/2021
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Abstract
This paper adopts a gendered perspective exploring how gambling by a male partner contributes to intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Unstructured interviews with 30 women with lived experience of male partner violence linked to his gambling were analyzed using adaptive grounded theory. Gendered drivers of violence set the context for IPV experienced by these women. Their male partners held strict patriarchal views about gender roles, controlled decision-making, restricted the woman’s independence, and condoned using violence against women. Gambling by the male partner interacted with these gendered drivers to increase the frequency and severity of IPV. They prioritized their gambling above the family’s welfare, controlled household finances, and coerced the woman into providing money. Gambling created situations that increased IPV, including anger over losses, family stressors and conflicts, with violent backlash silencing the woman’s objections. Violence intensified as the gambling escalated, with short-term cycles of violence directly linked to gambling events. Women experienced financial, psychological, physical and sexual abuse, and patterns of coercive control that maintained a climate of fear. These findings reveal the centrality of gender inequality within intimate relationships as a foundation for IPV, which is then exacerbated by the perpetrator’s gambling.
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- Title
- How gambling by a male partner contributes to intimate partner violence against women: a gendered perspective
- Creators
- Nerilee Hing (Author) - Central Queensland UniversityCatherine O'Mullan - Central Queensland UniversityHelen Breen (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityElaine Nuske (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityLydia Mainey - Central Queensland University
- Publication Details
- International Gambling Studies, Vol.22(1), pp.82-101
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Grant note
- This material was produced with funding from the Australian Government and the Australian state and territory governments. Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) gratefully acknowledges the financial and other support it has received from these governments, without which this work would not have been possible.
- Identifiers
- 991012962800202368
- Copyright
- © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
- Academic Unit
- Social Work; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Faculty of Health
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article