Feeling Trapped: Social Class and Violence Against Women Volume 9

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.

Author: James Ptacek
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 02/07/2023
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780520381612
ISBN10: 0520381610
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Criminology
- Family & Relationships | Abuse | Domestic Partner Abuse
- Social Science | Sociology | General

About the Author
James Ptacek is Professor Emeritus in Sociology at Suffolk University. He is author of Battered Women in the Courtroom and editor of Restorative Justice and Violence against Women.