TY  - GEN
T1  - Feeling trapped : social class and violence against women
T2  - Gender and justice series ;
A1  - Ptacek, James
LA  - English
PP  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1343298656
AB  - "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"--
OP  - 225
CN  - HV6626.2 .P795 2023
SN  - 9780520381629
SN  - 0520381629
SN  - 9780520381605
SN  - 9780520381612
KW  - Intimate partner violence : United States : Case studies.
KW  - Social classes : United States : Case studies.
KW  - Women : Violence against : United States : Case studies.
KW  - Violence entre partenaires : États-Unis : Études de cas.
KW  - Classes sociales : États-Unis : Études de cas.
KW  - Femmes : Violence envers : États-Unis : Études de cas.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
KW  - Intimate partner violence
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Women : Violence against
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Case studies.
KW  - Études de cas.
ER  -