title: The Girl Is Mine: Reframing Intimate Partner Violence and Sex Work as Intersectional Spaces of Gender-Based Violence.
abstract: Intimate partner violence (IPV) and sex work have been primarily constructed as mutually exclusive phenomena within scholarly literature, though both can be situated under the umbrella of gender-based violence and traced to male sexual proprietariness. Specialized research has resulted in deeper understanding of nuanced categorizations of sub-phenomena within both IPV and sex work, with parallel constructions along a spectrum of increasing danger. However, the scholarly construction of these continua as parallel-and thus unrelated-disguises the systemic nature of each form of violence and potentially pits victims against each other in the struggle for legitimacy. We propose a more systemic approach to understanding and researching IPV and sex work and provide examples of research already moving in this direction.
authors.affiliation: 1 Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA.
authors.forename: Jonel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Thaller
authors.affiliation: 2 Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Andrea N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Cimino
keywords: coercive control; domestic violence; prostitution; relationship power; social problems work; transactional sex