Feeling Trapped: Social Class and Violence Against Women Volume 9

by James Ptacek

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520381610
• ISBN13: 9780520381612
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"