Partner Violence in Transgender Communities: What Helping Professionals Need to Know

ABSTRACT

In recent decades, there has been an increase in scholarly attention devoted to the study of intimate partner violence (IPV) within rainbow communities. While a growing body of scholarship now informs our understanding of the experiences of gay, lesbian, and bisexual men and women with IPV, comparatively less is known about IPV within transgender communities. Drawing on the published literature on transgender intimate relationships, this article seeks to provide practitioners with a foundational understanding of IPV in the lives of transgender people. Specifically, we will examine (a) methodological, political, and social barriers to the creation of knowledge about transgender IPV; (b) the familial and relationship contexts of IPV within transgender communities; (c) the prevalence of IPV experienced by transgender survivors; (d) the dynamics of IPV perpetrated against and/or by transgender persons; (e) the problematic use of the “trans panic” defense by perpetrators of IPV in legal contexts; and (f) recommendations for supporting transgender survivors of IPV in ways that are trans-inclusive and trans-positive.     

Fragments of Modernization: Domestic Spaces Indicating Traditional Dialects in a Modern Speech

This article examines the change in Turkish domestic space through modernization and, in particular, the artifact of lace, as a nonchanging object in Turkish home in its relationship with the “traditional” and the “modern” domestic settings. Thereby it investigates how traditional and modern settings are defined in Turkish society and, this leads to a further analysis of the modernization process in Turkey within the scope of Turkish house and its domestic settings. The aim of the article is to analyze lace as an agent, which is an actant of the change in domestic settings, to read the connection between the daily life of people and social lives of artifacts. Therefore, examining the dialogue of lace with traditional and modern domestic settings provides to deconstruct the network of the artifact, the house and the individual during the modernization process that Turkish society has been through. The theoretical perspective of the article relies on a material‐semiotic approach with an emphasis on Latour's Actor‐Network Theory and, the methodology of the article is based on ethnography: It includes observations and semi‐structured interviews conducted with people from different social environments focusing on the meaning and the use of lace in domestic environment.     

Belonging: women living with intellectual disabilities and experiences of domestic violence

Women with an intellectual disability are under-represented in domestic violence research, yet they are one of the most vulnerable groups who are at risk of violence and abuse. This article aims to contribute to the domestic violence field by reporting on a narrative dialogic performative study, which utilised a feminist poststructural perspective to explore significant relationships and the concept of belonging in the lives of women with a mild intellectual disability. Four in-depth narrative interviews were conducted. The study found that the women shared similar stories of devaluation and rejection in childhood and hence the women’s search for belonging contributed to their vulnerability to exploitation and abuse in domestic violence relationships. The paper argues that gendered discourses and constructions of intellectual disability regulate domestic violence as a personal problem or way of life for women with intellectual disabilities.     

战略抉择:中国经济发展方式的现状与转型

经济发展方式包括对内和对外经济发展方式。改革开放以来,中国市场取向和高强度投入的对内经济发展方式,与注重加工贸易和以引进外国直接投资为主、借入外国债务为辅的对外经济发展方式相互作用,推动中国经济迅速发展。但是,这种发展方式只是脱贫之路,而不是富强之路。随着时间的推移,这种发展方式不可持续的弱点逐渐表现出来。因此,中国政府应该充分发挥"看不见的手"和"看得见的手"的作用,对内实行自主创新和调整产业结构的发展战略,对外实行以超比较优势为核心的梯型对外贸易发展战略、以调整结构为主线的质量型引进外国直接投资发展战略和以渐进的人民币国际化为中心的对外金融发展战略,以成功地完成转变经济发展方式这场"经济社会领域的深刻变革"。     

WTO农业谈判的僵局及其原因

多哈回合贸易谈判的主要问题是农产品的贸易自由化。由于谈判各方利益冲突严重,至今仍未取得满意的结局。对9年来多哈回合历次谈判进行总结,分析谈判破裂的原因,以期对未来农业谈判的前景判断有所帮助。     

中外保险企业经营比较

中国保险业经过改革开放20多年的发展,在市场竞争规模、经营管理手段、保险营销方式等方面都积累了一些经验,具备了一定的实力。但是,中固保险业仍是个幼稚产业,与世界保险业之间差距还很大。本文分析了国内保险企业的经营数据,并与国际部分保险企业的相关数据进行了比较,指出了国内保险企业所存在的主要问题,分析了经营差距产生的内在原因并对此提出发展建议,希望对国内保险企业的运作有一定的指导意义。     

服务业三种生产模式的选择：外包、FDI和本国生产

外包、FDI和本国生产是服务业国际化战略中最重要的三种生产模式。本文通过建立发达国家的国际化选择模型,利用柯布道格拉斯函数,根据最小成本原则,比较了外包模式、FDI模式和本国生产模式下的成本差异;通过建立短期和长期的国际化选择模型,分析了发达国家如何将服务业产品在外包、FDI和本国生产三种生产模式之间进行分配。并对我国如何做好服务业国际转移的承接工作提出了建议。     

小城镇基础设施建设融资现状实证分析

通过对云南省小城镇基础设施关于建设需求、资金来源、融资模式应用以及影响因素的调查问卷分析,以实证数据进一步证明小城镇基础设施建设融资中存在的不足,用图形、表格等方式更加直观地呈现出目前小城镇基础设施建设融资存在投资需求矛盾突出、融资渠道单一、新型融资模式与途径难以推广等问题。在此基础上,分析总结出问题存在的根源为小城镇经济基础薄弱、产业集聚小,政府缺乏多渠道融资意识以及规模小、利益驱动规律阻碍融资。     

电信基础设施保护及对策探讨

电信基础设施是通信的网络和命脉,是保证国家或地区社会经济活动正常进行的公共服务系统。但是近些年来,通信基础设施防护一直是个难题,偷盗毁损通信基础设施的现象十分突出,给国家和企业造成重大经济损失,严重威胁通信网络运行安全。通过内涵、外延的叙述对基础设施的概念作了解释,在此基础上对基础设施所具有的助推作用及乘数效应两大特性作了分析,阐述了基础设施在社会经济发展中的地位和作用;列举了公用电信设施被破坏的几种现象,指出电信基础设施安全状况令人堪忧;通过观察分析,提出了在保护基础设施安全方面存在的问题及原因,指出打击不力、监管不严是其主要问题;针对存在的问题,从法律法规、行政管理、宣传教育、社会治理等方面提出了应对措施。     

国内网络集群行为研究文献综述

在互联网时代,全新的网络空间为人们提供了一个自由发表言论、表达观点的互动平台,＂网络集群行为＂正是基于这一平台而形成的一个有别于现实社会中集群行为的全新行为方式。这种网络集群行为的频繁发生,不但直接影响到人们的社会生活,而且也开始引起了不同学科众多学者的关注。这里试图通过对近几年国内就网络集群行为研究成果的梳理,充分展示国内有关网络集群行为的研究现状,以便为今后的研究者提供有益的助力。