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- Title
Defying (Dis)Empowerment in a Battered Women's Shelter: Moral Rhetorics, Intersectionality, and Processes of Control and Resistance.
- Authors
Gengler, Amanda M.
- Abstract
The article discusses processes of control and resistance in the context of power struggles at a battered women's shelter. It is said that poor women at the shelter used the moral rhetoric of empowerment in order to resist gendered power relations. Other topics include the nature of intersectionality, the roles of race and class in power relations, and the facilitation of group meetings at the shelter. Interactions between counselors at the shelter and women victims of domestic abuse are addressed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; WOMEN'S shelters; ABUSED women; SELF-efficacy -- Social aspects; INTERSECTIONALITY; POWER (Social sciences); SOCIAL control; COUNSELOR-client relationship; POOR women; DISCIPLINE; SOCIAL conditions of women; VICTIM assistance
- Publication
Social Problems, 2012, Vol 59, Issue 4, p501
- ISSN
0037-7791
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1525/sp.2012.59.4.501