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Violence In The Lives Of Black Women: Battered, Black, And Blue, Carolyn West
Violence In The Lives Of Black Women: Battered, Black, And Blue, Carolyn West
Carolyn M. West
Break the silence surrounding Black women's experiences of violence! Written from a Black feminist perspective by therapists, researchers, activists, and survivors, Violence in the Lives of Black Women: Battered, Black, and Blue sheds new light on an understudied field. For too long, Black women have been suffering the effects of violence in painful silence. This book—winner of the Carolyn Payton Early Career Award for its contribution to the understanding of the role of gender in the lives of Black women—provides a forum where personal testimony and academic research meet to show you how living at the intersection of many kinds …
"Sorry, We Have To Take You In:" Black Battered Women Arrested For Intimate Partner Violence, Carolyn West
"Sorry, We Have To Take You In:" Black Battered Women Arrested For Intimate Partner Violence, Carolyn West
Carolyn M. West
The purpose of the present effort is to examine the experiences of Black victim-defendants. To begin, an integration of both the family violence gender symmetry perspective and the contextual perspective is reviewed, with a particular focus on Black women's use of violence within heterosexual relationships. The concept of bidirectional asymmetric violence is then developed as a result of that integration. This is followed by an exploration of possible factors that may contribute to Black women's overrepresentation in the legal system, including the enactment of mandatory arrest laws. Because feminist scholars have used life histories to document the experiences of Black …