ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focused on particular communities of women to explore their differentiated experiences of gender in specific contexts of domestic violence. It see post-structuralist theory as providing a way to expose the complexities and nuances of gendered positioning in contexts of domestic violence. In conceptualising this book, realised that people were entering relatively unknown territory as very few feminists have developed and applied post-structuralist theory to domestic violence. Moreover, because most gendered discourses position women as inferior to men, they often work hand in glove to reinforce male superiority and domestic violence. While everyday intimacy has different meanings and significance in different contexts, such as mothering, ageing, religiosity, refugee, rurality, Aboriginality, sexuality and disability, it is the investment in particular gendered discourses and subject positions, and the abuse of femininity in particular, that needs to be questioned and changed to stop domestic violence.
