Constructing the battered woman

Feminist Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 416-443

  VanNatta, Michelle ^a  

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EID: 26444504615     PISSN: 00463663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/20459035     Document Type: Review

References (56)

1. This research focuses on women battered by women in intimate partnerships. These survivors may identify as lesbian, bisexual, queer, straight, or otherwise. Separating out the specific and unique experiences of survivors who are lesbian, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit, queer, or male is crucial for building the antiviolence movement, but beyond the scope of this article.
2. David Sudnow, "Normal Crimes: Sociological Features of the Penal Code in a Public Defender Office," Social Problems 12 (Winter 1965): 255-77;
3. Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services (New York: Russell Sage, 1980);
4. Robert Emerson, "Disputes in Public Bureaucracies," in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, vol. 12, part A, ed. Susan S. Sibley and Austin Saurat (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1992), 3-29.
5. Donileen Loseke, The Battered Woman and Shelters: The Social Construction of Wife Abuse (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992).
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12. The shelters in which I gathered data housed between eight and forty-five women. My data include sixteen interviews with thirteen women representing seven different shelters in three cities between March and August 1995. Nine interviewees were shelter workers, two were current or former gay/lesbian antiviolence program directors, one was a former homeless shelter director, and one is currently a safe house director. Two of the interviewees were former supervisors of mine from my previous work at a homeless shelter and battered women's shelter, several were people I had met working in social service, and the others were women I cold-called at their agencies. I have been involved as a worker or volunteer at various women's organizations over the past fourteen years. I also examined agency documents and used data from a survey conducted by a battered women's organization and distributed to other such organizations in 2000. Shelters in one midwestern city housed primarily women of color, whereas most of the shelters in the other midwestern city and on the West Coast served a large percentage of white women; however, one of these specialized in providing services to Latinas. The names of shelters and interviewees have been changed to protect privacy.
13. Mildred Pagelow, Woman-Battering: Victims and Their Experiences (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1981), 33.
14. Lenore Walker, The Battered Woman (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), xv.
15. Barbara Hart, "Lesbian Battering: An Examination," in Naming the Violence: Speaking Out about Lesbian Battering, ed. Kerry Lobel (Seal Press: Seattle, 1986), 173-89.
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19. Some women who do not identify as heterosexual also do not identify as lesbian or bisexual, but rather use the term "queer" to describe an identity that is in one way or another not straight yet also not inside the lesbian/bisexual/heterosexual categorization system. Some people identify themselves using yet other terms that are not discussed here. The term "queer" is contested; although some women identify with it, others consider it an insult.
20. Homosexual identification was listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as a mental illness until 1973.
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22. Sarah Sulis, "Battered Bisexual Women," 173-80
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24. Charlene Alien and Beth Levanthal, "History, Culture, and Identity: What Makes GLBT Battering Different," 73-81, all in Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Strategies for Change, ed. Beth Levanthal and Sandra Lundy (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1999);
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30. Ristock, No More Secrets.
31. Lawrence Greenfeld et al., "Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends" (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1998), see www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/absract/vi.htm.
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37. Ristock, No More Secrets.
38. Sulis, "Battered Bisexual Women," 175.
39. David Island and Patrick Letellier, Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them: Battered Gay Men and Domestic Violence (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1991).
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43. Martha Lucia Garcia, "A 'New Kind' of Battered Woman: Challenges for the Movement," in Same-Sex Domestic Violence, 163-72;
44. Norma Hotaling, "Making the Harm Visible," in Making the Harm Visible: Global Sexual Exploitation of Women and Girls: Speaking Out and Providing Services, ed. Donna Hughes and Claire Roche (Kingston, R.I.: Coalition against Trafficking in Women, 1999), 227-32.
45. Loseke, The Battered Woman and Shelters.
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54. Russo, Taking Back Our Lives;
55. Ristock, No More Secrets.
56. Leslie Feinberg, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998).