Strengthening Domestic Violence Theories: Intersections of Race, Class, Sexual Orientation, and Gender

Bograd, Michele

doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.1999.tb00248.x

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“…Domestic abuse is a form of gendered violence; as many scholars have argued, it is shaped, facilitated, understood and at times legitimated by socially constructed gender relations (Harne and Radford, 2008, pp. 7-17;Harrison and Laliberté, 1994, 52;Johnson, 2008, 8;O'Toole, Schiffman, and Edwards, 2007, xiii;Stark, 2007, 210-211) and, in various ways (although beyond the scope of this article), by intersecting axes of power such as race, class and sexuality (Bograd, 1999). The public/private divide is implicated in this 4 gendered form of control in a variety of ways, making domestic abuse a productive window through which to consider the fluid constructions of this binary.…”

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Domestic abuse and the public/private divide in the British military

Gray

2015

Gender, Place & Culture

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Domestic abuse and the public/private divide in the British militaryDivisions between the social spheres of public and private are always fluid, mutually constitutive, and politically and socially formulated. Within the British military, such divisions are further framed through the needs of operational effectiveness. In the pursuit of operational effectiveness the public/private divide functions at times as porous, in large part through the military's provision of services such as housing, welfare and policing to personnel and their families and through the notion of a closeknit military community, and at others as firm, bolstering operational effectiveness through recourse to militarised ideas of the private sphere as the fixed space of hearth, home and femininity which is to be protected by military force. This article employs narratives of domestic abuse as a window through which to analyse enactments of the public/private divide in the British military. The analysis draws upon interview participants' experiences of abuse and of help-seeking to illustrate the complex and 2 fluid ways in which the prioritisation of operational effectiveness frames and delimits the public and the private within the contemporary British military in relation to domestic abuse. The impacts of this upon victim-survivors' help-seeking experiences are discussed.

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Domestic abuse and the public/private divide in the British military

Gray

2015

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…The present study built on the recent work of researchers and activists who recognize that intimate partner abuse and women's responses to violence exist in social and cultural contexts, and that partner abuse is not solely a mental health problem resulting from individual pathology (Bograd, 1984(Bograd, , 1999Das Dasgupta, 1998;Flores-Ortíz, 1993;Kanua, 1994;Mahoney, 1994;Sharma, 2001;Thorne-Finch, 1992;Yllö & Bograd, 1988). Culture is central to how people organize their experiences, identify a problem, view violence, and seek assistance, (King, et al, 1993).…”

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“…The second major aim of this study was to understand the Mexicanorigin women's help-seeking within their specific socio-cultural context. Socio-cultural factors affect how a woman experiences and responds to abuse and the options that she perceives as available (Bograd, 1999;Das Dasgupta, 1998;Mahoney, 1994). These perceptions will, in turn, help to determine the actual help she seeks .…”

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Exploring Battered Mexican-Origin Women's Help-Seeking Within Their Sociocultural Contexts

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2007

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“…Intersectionality holds important implications for domestic violence work because it calls into question the assumption that domestic violence is the primary danger faced by the survivor seeking services (Bograd, 1999;Crenshaw, 1991;Davis, 2000;Haaken, 2010;Smith, 2005).…”

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On Thin ICE? Domestic Violence Advocacy and Law Enforcement-Immigration Collaborations

Rempe¹

2000

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The public focus on domestic violence has been one of the most successful campaigns of the modern women's movement. This success was achieved in part through the creation of strategic alliances among agencies and organizations responding to partner violence. One of the most contested of these alliances involved partnering with the criminal justice system. While representing an advance in holding police accountable in protecting all citizens (Coker, 2006), this alliance has had problematic consequences, particularly as it has extended state power into the lives of women of color (e.g. Richie, 2005). This problem is exacerbated by new collaborations between law enforcement and A case study methodology was used to evaluate proximity to work with undocumented survivors and the organizations' general orientation to domestic violence work. Transcripts of the focus groups were analyzed using a discursive method centered on identifying how the groups worked through a set of dilemmas presented in the focus groups, which involved a crisis call scenario involving an undocumented woman and an agency practice common to many domestic violence service providers.In the analysis of discursive strategies of the groups, a key finding centered on the groups' use of a decision-tree heuristic to work through dilemmas of practice presented in the two scenarios. This discursive strategy facilitated the process of group decisionmaking at points where the actions required were clear and concrete. However, as more complexity, ambiguity or ambivalence were introduced, the limitations of the decisiontree strategy become more apparent.Findings related to the agency's proximity to undocumented workers suggest that this affinity was less important than was the agency's working relationship to the Criminal Justice System (CJS). Closeness to the CJS was associated with reliance on a discourse that places the police at the center of services for all survivors of domestic violence, regardless of documentation status, and a heightened focus on the risk of lethality to rationalize the risks associated with referrals involving law enforcement-ICE iii iii collaborations. iv iv Acknowledgements

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Strengthening Domestic Violence Theories: Intersections of Race, Class, Sexual Orientation, and Gender

Cited by 222 publications

References 48 publications

Domestic abuse and the public/private divide in the British military

Domestic abuse and the public/private divide in the British military

Exploring Battered Mexican-Origin Women's Help-Seeking Within Their Sociocultural Contexts

On Thin ICE? Domestic Violence Advocacy and Law Enforcement-Immigration Collaborations

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