Feeling Trapped

Social Class and Violence against Women

James Ptacek (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38161-2 (ISBN)

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The relationship between class and intimate violence against women is much misunderstood. While many studies of intimate violence focus on poor and working-class women, few examine the issue comparatively in terms of class privilege and class disadvantage. James Ptacek draws on in-depth interviews with sixty women from wealthy, professional, working-class, and poor communities to investigate how social class shapes both women's experiences of violence and the responses of their communities to this violence. Ptacek's framing of women's victimization as "social entrapment" links private violence to public responses and connects social inequalities to the dilemmas that women face.

James Ptacek is Professor Emeritus in Sociology at Suffolk University. He is author of Battered Women in the Courtroom and editor of Restorative Justice and Violence against Women.

Contents

Preface

1. Conversations with Women about Abuse
2. The Hidden Dramas of Masculinity
3. Failed Femininity and Psychological Cruelty
4. Terror, Fear, and Caution: Physical Violence and Threats
5. The Continuum of Sexual Abuse
6. Economic Abuse: Control, Sabotage, and Exploitation
7. The Emotional Dynamics of Entrapment: Love, Fear, Anger, Guilt, and Shame
8. Separation, Healing, and Justice
Conclusion: Intimate Violence as Social Entrapment

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.01.2023
Reihe/Serie	Gender and Justice ; 9
Zusatzinfo	1 figure
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-38161-0 / 0520381610
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38161-2 / 9780520381612
Zustand	Neuware