Feeling Trapped: Social Class and Violence against Women

Description

Product ID:	9780520381612
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Series:	Gender and Justice
Title:	Feeling Trapped
Subtitle:	Social Class and Violence against Women
Authors:	Author: James Ptacek
Page Count:	240
Subjects:	Violence and abuse in society, Violence in society, Domestic abuse, Social classes, Sociology, Crime and criminology, Law and society, gender issues, Coping with / advice about personal, social and health topics, Domestic violence, Social classes, Sociology, Crime & criminology, Gender & the law, Coping with personal problems
Description:	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.
Imprint Name:	University of California Press
Publisher Name:	University of California Press
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2023-02-07

Weight	356 g
Dimensions	151 × 230 × 17 mm