Feeling Trapped Social Class and Violence against Women

Reviews

"The intersectional approach to class analysis of variation in men's intimate violence against women is important and effective. There is not a lot of research that allows analysts to make the systematic cross-class comparisons that are at the heart of this book."—Lisa D. Brush, author of Poverty, Battered Women, and Work in U.S. Public Policy

"That intimate partner violence occurs across all socio‐economic statuses is often discussed, but rarely do we see a study that presents narrative data from across this spectrum. This work opens discussion of IPV in a more focused way on women’s experiences of violence through a racial and economic lens and uses women’s own voices to address some of the prevailing perceptions of woman abuse across different demographic groups."—Shannon Collier-Tenison, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

"Feeling Trapped makes a much-needed contribution to our understanding of the abuse of women and social class, a subject far too often neglected in existing scholarship. Ptacek's ground-breaking offering is destined to become a classic, one that will undoubtedly advance innovative progressive policy and practice."—Walter S. DeKeseredy, Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and Professor of Sociology, West Virginia University & author of Woman Abuse in Rural Places