Structural Violence: Hidden Brutality in the Lives of Women

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175 Index antiprison movement, 5, 99 anti-racist groups, 5, 6, 9, 142 Asian women, 46, 122–123, 127–131, 153 n.2 Bhattacharjee, Anannya: interagency collusion, 4, 48, 57, 102; state violence 16, 140; space of the Indian immigrant bourgeoisie, 127–130 Blueprint for Safety, 4, 43 border: as a legal structure, 14, 46; sexual assault by border agents, 10, 48, 50, 151 n.2; interagency collaboration among police and border agents, 48; border region, 147; violence at, 2, 48. See also deportation cartographies of violence, 131, 142. See also map of violence class, social and economic: battering in middle-class homes, 91–93, 118–119, 4–10, 33; class divisions among prostitutes, 84–85, 88, 92; class tensions among lesbians, 95, 97, 99–100; manipulation of class in the court system, 108; violence against women among immigrant South Asian bourgeoisie, 127–131; violence against working class Latinas 45–63, 67; a working class counterpublic, 76 community, xii, 10, 11, 25, 35, 43, 104, 121, 133, 146, 147, 154; as colluding in abuse, 21, 29, 32; communities of color, 3, 5, 62, 122, 139, 140, 142, 144; counterpublics as community, 82, 83; Jewish, 130–131; Latino/a communities 8, 39, 45, 48, 49, 53, 56, 59, 60–64, 99–100; lesbian community, 89–91, 93–95, 97, 99–100, 156 n.2, 156 n.4; South Asian, 127–131 community based organizations, 9, 32, 24–44, 45–64, 142 counterpublics, 65–88, 154 n.3, 156 n.8 courts, law, 3, 13, 15, 16 18, 21, 26, 29, 39, 86, 158 n.7, 158 n.9; domestic violence court, xii, 2, 9, 10, 101–117, 157 n.1, 158 n.3; family court, 78, 102–104, 117, 157 n.1, 158 n.13–n.15; immigrant fears of, 8, 47–48, 55, 56–61, 63–64; lesbians in, 89–90, 92, 93–96, 127, 156 n.6, 156 n.7; option for prostitutes, 67, 71, 78; problematic as solution, 123, 125, 134–137, 138, 146. See also criminal justice system Crenshaw, Kimberlé, 5, 11, 143, 152 n.5 & n.9 criminal justice system, 2–4, 101–120, 121, 134, 155 n.7; criminalization of Native women, 7, 98; criminalization of prostitution, 66, 74, 81; as a solution 176 I NDEX criminal justice system (continued) to violence against women, 43, 101, 139–141, 146, 156 n.6, 157 n.1; as structuring the lives of women, 14. See also courts, law; border cycle of violence, 2, 12, 39, 41, 53–55, 62, 143, 153 n.7, 154 n.4. See also Lenore Walker deportation, as violence against women, 2, 5, 7, 11, 18, 41–42, 48, 50, 51, 57, 58, 61, 128. See also border domestic violence: used as synonym for ‘violence against women,’ 2–4, 7, 11–12, 16; Fanon on, 153 n.6. See also courts, law, domestic violence court Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (Duluth Project), 4, 19, 21–44, 54, 102, 103, 153 n.6. See also Pence, Ellen Freire, Paulo, 7, 25, 42, 43, 45, 153 n.6 gender: gender and identity, 4, 12, 33, 70, 80–83; method for studying, 13, 15, 36, 45, 96; gendered effects 42; gendered aspects of immigration policy, 5, 41, 46–48, 50, 53, 61, 63, 129; manipulation of, 108, 112; gender oppression, 145. See also gendered violence; intersectionality gendered violence: stopping, 2; experiences of, 18; meaning of, 7; courts failure to stop, 16, 18, 22, 32, 42, 64, 99, 101, 103, 104, 120, 142, 144, 153 n.6 Giobbe, Evelina, 65, 66, 70–71, 73–74, 78–82, 83, 85–87, 155 n.5 Habermas, Jürgen, 68, 82, 83 154 n.3 HIV 15, 73, 106–108, 154 n.3 home, 17, 32, 44, 55, 67, 79; construction of home as a place of safety for women, v, 152 n.8; decentering 112, 143; homelessness, relation to violence, 6, 107–108, 128; immigrant, 16, 50, 51, 53, 61, 64; legal constructions of 89, 101, 104, 105–108, 109 111, 119; lesbian battering in, 89, 90, 92, 93, 102, 103, 113, 118, 121, 125, 127, 128–135, 140, 141, 144; normative understandings of, 3, 12, 13. See also domestic violence; homeless women homeless women, xii, 6, 44, 125, 128, 129, 137. See also home, homelessness, relation to violence homogenization of spaces of violence, 4, 13–15, 32, 33, 45, 118–119; 105–106, 157 n.8. See also space homogeneity of women, presumed, 5, 14–15, 34, 64, 87, 99...