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- Structural Violence: Hidden Brutality in the Lives of Women
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
Challenges the notions that “violence against women” is synonymous with “domestic violence” and that violence affects all women equally. Structural Violence seeks to redraw the conventional map of violence against women. In order to understand violence as a fundamentally heterogeneous phenomenon, it is essential to go beyond interpersonal partner violence and analyze the workings of institutional and structural violence. Self-help books, some shelters, the courts, federal and state legislation, empirical studies, therapeutic models, and even some mainstream feminist polemics presume that all women face the same kind of violence. This assumption masks violence that does not conform to the imagined norm, such as violence against women who are sex workers, lesbians, homeless, and/or undocumented. Joshua M. Price’s exploration of these issues is based on several years of research involving participant-observation in domestic violence courts and extensive interviews with activists, advocates, incarcerated women, and women who have faced various forms of violence. Both conceptually and methodologically, the book challenges narrow notions of violence against women and demonstrates implications for judicial intervention and other forms of public involvement.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- Chapter Six: “Why Doesn’t She Just Leave?”
- pp. 121-138
- Bibliography
- pp. 161-173
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438443454
MARC Record
OCLC
817565684
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2012-11-02
Language
English
Open Access
No