“Why I Stayed in That Relationship”: Barriers to Indigenous Women’s Ability to Leave Violent Relationships

Catherine E. McKinley; Jessica L. Liddell

doi:10.1177/10778012221104507

“Why I Stayed in That Relationship”: Barriers to Indigenous Women’s Ability to Leave Violent Relationships

Catherine E. McKinley
, Jessica L. Liddell

School of Social Work

Tulane University

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Abstract

Indigenous women in the United States are among the most vulnerable to intimate partner violence (IPV), which has reached endemic levels. The purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to understand contextual factors and barriers to becoming liberated from violence. Reconstructive analysis of data from a critical ethnography with a sample of 231 women across two tribes who described IPV relationships identified the following themes: controlling relationships, losing sense of priorities, using children, socioeconomic stress, family pressures, and restricting relationships. Results revealed these tactics, which parallel those used in the patriarchal colonialism of historical oppression, impeded women’s liberation from relationships.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3352-3374
Number of pages	23
Journal	Violence Against Women
Volume	28
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012221104507
State	Published - Nov 2022

Funding

This work was supported, in part, by Award K12HD043451 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health [Krousel-Wood-PI; Catherine McKinley (formerly Burnette), Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Scholar]; and by U54 GM104940 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, which funds the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center. Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01AA028201. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

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U54 GM104940
R01AA028201
U54GM104940
K12HD043451

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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

Native American or American Indian or Indigenous
barriers
historical oppression
intimate partner violence
violence

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