The Language of Battered Women: A Rhetorical Analysis of Personal Theologies

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SUBJECT INDEX 267 abuse, 33, 35; 80; childhood 146; economic 17; emotional 1, 3 17; kinds of, 15–18, 53–55; mental 17; physical 1, 3, 17; sexual 1; social, 156; structural, 156; unreckoned dimensions of, 163 action research, 229, 231, 250 n15 affliction, 70, 84, 108 African-American (women), 2, 34, 39, 87, 199, 221, 232 age, 7, 21, 34, 322; language deriving from, 81 agency, 52, 57–60, 105, 149, 152–53, 239 n12; losing, 157; no agency, 57; batterer’s agency, 149 agnostics, 223 all-female enclaves, 99 American Psychiatric Association, 66–67 anointing, 95 apathy, 63 Apostolic tradition, 138, 206; and women, 208 Appalachian, 1, 2, 21, 34, 87, 90, 99, 199, 243 n28 atheists, 223 atonement, 96, 98, 115 avoidance (as coping strategy), 68–69 Baptist, 80, 92, 128–29, 136, 140, 182, 201, 207 battered woman’s syndrome, 239 n15 battered women, critical capabilities of, 88; as identity group, 8; and physical health, 18, 70, 241 n35; terminology for, 26, 55, 239 n8 battery, meanings of, 91 bible church (see also Baptist), 97 biological distress, 57 black churches, 9, 90–95 body language, 59, 64 Catholic, 7, 65, 80, 91–92, 103, 117, 139, 207 childcare, 39, 42, 156 child-rearing (conflict about), 210 children, abuse of, 160; aggression in, 36; assaulted by abusers, 54; discipline of, 47; and guilt, 150; in the shelter, 33, 35–36, 42 Church of God in Christ, 92 church, (role of), 6, 153, 224–26; evading, 246 n5 church attendance, 102, 125–26 church mothers, 130 church reform, 153 class, 2, 3, 21, 91, 222; conflicts, 33; discrimination, 44; language deriving from 81, 247 n22; middle-class women, 28, middle-class staff, 39; and religious affiliation, 89–92; and suffering, 250 n5; and tensions from, 51 classism, 88 33011_SP_WIN_SB INDX_267-273 10/10/03, 11:38 AM 267 268 SUBJECT INDEX clinical discourse, 152 codependency, 26, 69, 152 codes (elaborated and restricted), 247 n22 coercion, 19, 111 commonplaces, 98 communicative practices, dysfunctional, 23 congregational power, 99 corporeality, 8, 57, 61, 74, 76 counter-power, 237 n18 creative attachment, 226 crisis intervention, 229; models of 43 cross-cultural variation (in language practices), 183–84 cultural conflict, 22 cultural context, 188 cultural divides, 229 cultural factors (for hiding physical pain), 63–66 cultural feminism, 246 n9 cultural negligence, 64 culture, 12, 25, 67; organization of, 221; popular, 98; shelter culture, 61–63 curfew, 27, 46, 49 cycle of violence, 25, 45, 50 dance, 214 deep listening, 230 deficit model of behavior, (see also therapeutic model), 44 delivery of services (in the shelter), 39 denial/numbing, (as coping strategy) 68, 240 n20 denominational affiliation; in America, 92; in shelter, 241 n1 Department of Human Services, 41 depression, 35, 241 n35 DSM-III (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-III), 67 dialogic, 4–5, 11, 100, 158, 168, 186, 223; mixing in language, 218; orientation of language, 4 dialogism, and social change, 179, 181; and dual belief systems, 205–208; and theology, 202; and transformation, 5, 182–83 divine images, 92, 94, 98–99 domestic violence, causes of, 7; kinds of, 7, 71 drugs and alcohol (see also substance abuse), 24, 29; addictions, 87; assumptions about use, 40; counseling, 80; rules about, 46, 48; as topics of discussion, 69; used by shelter women, 34 dual subordination, 22 dual systems (of theology), 104, 116, 186, 194, 205–208 dualistic cosmology, 103–104 eating disorders, 237 n11 economic (contributions to family), 22 economically depressed, 2 ecstatic behaviors, 244 n37 education, 3, 35, 205, 222; religious education, 29, 104, 114; of shelter staff, 37–38; and training, 41; of women, 35, 80 egalitarian (feminist) Evangelicals, 98 ethnicity, 3, 7, 21, 22; as categories of analysis, 25; and religious affiliation, 89–92; of shelter women, 34; as a social construct, 22 ethnographers of communication, 231 ethnographic method, 61, 115, 222, 248 nn11, 12 ethnographic record, 8, 76 ethnography, 12, 227 evil, and God, 218; as mystery, 111; as social, 26, 100; and women’s new theology, 211–12; unmerited, 224; as violence against women, 118 existentialist, 150 face-to-face talk, 103 faith, as social expression, 121 family counseling, 243 n19 family income, 22 family interaction, 23 felt-reality, 84 33011_SP_WIN_SB INDX_267-273 10/10/03, 11:38 AM 268 269 SUBJECT INDEX female duties, 102, 131 feminist linguistics, 25, 222, 246 n9 filial obedience, 98 Final Judgment...