TY - JOUR
T1 - Beyond individual and visible acts of violence
T2 - A framework to examine the lives of women in low-income neighborhoods
AU - Dominguez, Silvia
AU - Menjivar, Cecilia
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by HUD , Annie E. Casey Foundation , Fannie Mae Foundation , Rockefeller Foundation , Smith Richardson Foundation and the William T. Grant Foundation .
PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - Low-income minority women are among the most disadvantaged in terms of social location, which exposes them to various forms of violence that perpetuate their poverty. Previous research has focused on individual explanations of actions that affect them. We seek to redirect our understandings away from individual explanations to focus on the broader contexts and inequalities that lie at the root of multiple and interconnected forms of violence in the lives of women in vulnerable positions. This approach facilitates recognition of violent structures often unrecognized or misrecognized as such. Our framework includes structural, interpersonal, and symbolic forms of violence, which we apply to examine the lives of a subsample of minority-status women gathered ethnographically in low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Los Angeles and New York through the Three City Study of Moving to Opportunity. In this exercise, we highlight the broader contexts that create conditions for individuals to harm one another.
AB - Low-income minority women are among the most disadvantaged in terms of social location, which exposes them to various forms of violence that perpetuate their poverty. Previous research has focused on individual explanations of actions that affect them. We seek to redirect our understandings away from individual explanations to focus on the broader contexts and inequalities that lie at the root of multiple and interconnected forms of violence in the lives of women in vulnerable positions. This approach facilitates recognition of violent structures often unrecognized or misrecognized as such. Our framework includes structural, interpersonal, and symbolic forms of violence, which we apply to examine the lives of a subsample of minority-status women gathered ethnographically in low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Los Angeles and New York through the Three City Study of Moving to Opportunity. In this exercise, we highlight the broader contexts that create conditions for individuals to harm one another.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.wsif.2014.01.012
DO - 10.1016/j.wsif.2014.01.012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84901483750
SN - 0277-5395
VL - 44
SP - 184
EP - 195
JO - Women's Studies International Forum
JF - Women's Studies International Forum
IS - 1
ER -