Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Domestic violence at the intersections of race, class, and gender: challenges and contributions to understanding violence against marginalized women in diverse communities
Other Titles:	Violence against women
Authors:	Sokoloff, Natalie J Dupont, Ida
Keywords:	Cross-cultural
Year:	2005
Publisher:	Sage Publications
Citation:	11 (1), January 2005
Notes:	Review article of the emerging domestic violence literature that focuses on marginalised women from a diversity of social and cultural communities. Examines the two occasionally conflicting perspectives of the literature: the structural approach and the race, class, gender analysis. Discusses the various challenges presented by these two views of domestic violence including: the universality of woman battering; the traditional definitions of women battering; the primacy of gender inequality in explaining woman battering; and attributing blame for domestic violence to other cultures. Presents the contributions that the structural and intersectional approaches bring to feminist practices. Among these are: giving expression to marginalised women; encouraging activism that highlights the marginalised woman; calling for culturally competent services for women experiencing domestic violence; and discrediting the stereotype of the battered woman. Concludes that both structural and individual analyses of race, class and gender inequality are necessary to domestic violence research in culturally diverse communities.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/14360
ISSN:	1077-8012
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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