Feeling Trapped: Social Class and Violence against Women, 1st Edition

.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.Feeling Trapped: Social Class and Violence against Women 1st Edition is written by James Ptacek and published by University of California Press. ISBNs for Feeling Trapped are 9780520381629, 0520381629 and the print ISBNs are 9780520381605, 0520381602. Additional ISBNs include 9780520381612.