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. 2023 Apr;29(5):901-924.
doi: 10.1177/10778012221092478. Epub 2022 Aug 10.

A Trisonance: Identities of Women Whose Mothers Were Murdered by Their Fathers

Shani Pitcho-Prelorentzos  1 , Elazar Leshem  1 , Michal Mahat-Shamir  1
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A Trisonance: Identities of Women Whose Mothers Were Murdered by Their Fathers

Shani Pitcho-Prelorentzos et al. Violence Against Women. 2023 Apr.

Abstract

The current qualitative study aimed to examine the narrative identities of women bereaved to intimate partner femicide. Eleven adult Israeli female offspring whose biological mothers were murdered by their biological fathers were interviewed for the purpose of this study. Due to the uniqueness of their loss experience and circumstances, participants' identity is narrated as a "trisonance": They are not like their fathers, their mothers, nor as society perceives them. This very particular route for identity reconstruction as a means of psychological survival is discussed in light of the literature on identity construction and bereavement and derives recommendations for practice.

Keywords: bereavement; domestic violence; femicide; narrative identity; traumatic loss.

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The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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