| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 社會政策與社會工作學系 === 96 === This study focused on the phenomena of lesbian partner abuse, and analyzed the response and tactics the abused lesbian adopting. Moreover, this study aims to find out the present service situation for lesbian partner abuse, and understand the demand by lesbian who have the experience of partner abuse, in order to provide the reference for the relevant policy and service program.
This study hired the qualitative research method, use the purposeful sampling to select 5 lesbians who have the experience of partner abuse, and 2 social workers who have working with gay/lesbian institution and on the relevant institution of domestic violence. This study used in-depth interview to collect data, and the obtained results were as follows：
1.The part of lesbian partner abuse phenomenon：This study finds out the lesbian partner abuse pattern is diverse, and the homophobia is one of the most important threat the offenders used, and the cycle of violence exists.Regarding to the violent relationships between lesbians, this research categorized six forms: “conflicts bringing about violence” , “methods to maintain partner relation” , “the appearance of violence from the loss of safety” , “the appearance of violence from imbalanced power structure” , “ the interaction of lesbian partner abuse ” , “the influence from lesbian partner relation” . Finally, this study also indicated that the original family life experience influencing lesbians in getting along with her partner and causes the acts of violence in the future.
2.The part of response in lesbian partner abuse：This study divides lesbian partner abuse response into three kinds of response as personal, informal and formal resources. The lesbians who used informal resources have positive attitude regarding the informal resources, but lesbians who used formal resources have negative attitude regarding the formal resources, on the other hand, the present service can provide lesbian partner abuse, such as hotline and counseling, and put two major predicaments from service in order, in institution and in personal. These difficulties could be improved by enhancing social work services, broadening institutional service agenda, and changing social attitude towards lesbians/gay.
Finally, according to the conclusion and discussion from this study, it puts forward the suggestion to the practice and the future research, the results from this study are hoped to serve as the reference for various.
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