Backs Against the Wall: Battered Women's Resistance Strategies

by McCloskey; Kathy A

• ISBN13: 9780789035844
• ISBN10: 0789035847
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-12-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book tackles several controversial aspects involved with intimate partner violence (IPV). This sensitive and sensible feminist perspective concerning battered women's use of different resistance strategies, and the reasons why they use them, also focuses on ways to support victims through intervention and prevention strategies.

Table of Contents

About the Contributors	p. vii
Introduction
Prologue: Introduction and Overview to Special Volume	p. 1
Victim Arrests
Are Half of All IPV Perpetrators Women? Putting Context Back into the Intimate Partner Violence Research Field	p. 7
Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Arrest Rates Across Recent Studies	p. 24
Why Do Police Arrest Victims of Domestic Violence? The Need for Comprehensive Training and Investigative Protocols	p. 49
Victim-Defendants in Mandated Treatment: An Ethical Quandary	p. 69
"Sorry, We Have to Take You In:" Black Battered Women Arrested for Intimate Partner Violence	p. 87
Cultural and Environmental Influences
Non-Violent Survival Strategies in the Face of Intimate Partner Violence and Economic Discrimination	p. 113
Using the Theory of Gender and Power to Examine Experiences of Partner Violence, Sexual Negotiation, and Risk of HIV/AIDS Among Economically Disadvantaged Women in Southern India	p. 143
The Ecology of Intimate Partner Violence: Theorized Impacts on Women's Use of Violence	p. 166
Index	p. 206
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