George, JayashreeStith, Sandra M.2014-10-142014-10-142014-10-14http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18372In this article, we explore intimate partner violence (IPV) from an intersectional, feminist perspective. We describe how an updated feminist view guides us to a perspective on IPV that is more strongly grounded in an anti-oppressive, non-violent, socially just feminist stance than a second-wave gender-essential feminist stance that suggests that patriarchy is the cause of IPV. At the time we began to work together it seemed that a researcher had to be identified as a “family violence” researcher or a “feminist” researcher of violence against women, and that it wasn’t possible to be a feminist researcher who looked beyond patriarchy as the cause of IPV. We advocate critically thinking about essentialist practices in clinical work so that we can maintain an anti-oppressive, socially just, non-violent approach to working with clients who experience IPV.en-USThis is the peer reviewed version of the following article: George, J., & Stith, S. M. (2014). An updated feminist view of intimate partner violence. Family Process, 53(2), 179-193., which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/famp.12073/fullIntimate partner violenceFeminismsEssentialismAnti-oppressionSocial justiceText