Abstract

A. INTRODUCTION (1) What this article will (not) do B. DOMESTIC ABUSE WITHIN SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS (1) Gender neutral legislation and slow inclusion of same-sex couples (2) Prevalence (3) Particular issues in same-sex domestic abuse (a) Homophobia and community stigma (b) Invisibility C. THE “DOMESTIC ABUSE AS GENDER-BASED ABUSE” DEFINITIONAL CONSTRUCT D. FEMINISM AND SAME SEX DOMESTIC ABUSE E. ATTEMPTS TO RECONCILE “DOMESTIC ABUSE AS GENDER-BASED ABUSE” WITH THE REALITY OF SAME-SEX DOMESTIC ABUSE (1) The Scottish lgbt domestic abuse project (2) Attempts to subsume same-sex domestic abuse within the government’s gendered definition F. CONCLUSION

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