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'Like A Prison!': Homeless Women's Narratives Of Surviving Shelter, Angela Moe, Sarah Deward
'Like A Prison!': Homeless Women's Narratives Of Surviving Shelter, Angela Moe, Sarah Deward
Angela M. Moe
Relying on field observation and twenty qualitative interviews with shelter residents, this article examines how the bureaucracy and institutionalization within a homeless shelter fits various tenets of Goffman's (1961) "total institution," particularly with regard to systematic deterioration of personhood and loss of autonomy. Women's experiences as shelter residents are then explored via a typology of survival strategies: submission, adaptation, and resistance. This research contributes to existing literature on gendered poverty by analyzing the nuanced ways in which institutionalization affects and complicates women's efforts to survive homelessness.
A Sheltered Life: Observations On A Domestic Violence Shelter, Angela Moe
A Sheltered Life: Observations On A Domestic Violence Shelter, Angela Moe
Angela M. Moe
No abstract provided.
Exploring The Literature On Relationships Between Gender Roles, Intimate Partner Violence, Occupational Status, And Organizational Benefits, Eileen Kwesiga, Myrtle Bell, Marshall Pattie, Angela Moe
Exploring The Literature On Relationships Between Gender Roles, Intimate Partner Violence, Occupational Status, And Organizational Benefits, Eileen Kwesiga, Myrtle Bell, Marshall Pattie, Angela Moe
Angela M. Moe
Studies of intimate partner violence (IPV) and work have been primarily conducted with women in low-wage low-status (LWLS) positions, as much of this research has focused on poverty, welfare, and homelessness. Although women in LWLS positions represent a large percentage of working women in the United States, it is also important to investigate experiences of women in high-wage high-status (HWHS) positions because a growing number of women are employed within such jobs. We propose gender role theory can be used to explain occurrences of IPV among women in HWHS positions and their utilization of organizational benefits. We suggest those in …
Silenced Voices And Structured Survival: Battered Women's Help-Seeking, Angela M. Moe
Silenced Voices And Structured Survival: Battered Women's Help-Seeking, Angela M. Moe
Angela M. Moe
Despite social and governmental responses to battering, many women continue to feel entrapped in abusive relationships. Using standpoint epistemology, this article examines the various aspects of help seeking, and the social and institutional responses to such efforts, through the narratives of 19 women in a domestic violence shelter. The findings are discussed with reference to Ptacek's social entrapment perspective and Gondolf and Fisher's survivor hypothesis, illustrating the socioeconomic and political context of the control tactics utilized by abusers and the structural impediments to battered women's successful help seeking.
Resistance, Compliance And The Climate Of Violence: Understanding Battered Women's Contacts With Police, Angela Moe
Resistance, Compliance And The Climate Of Violence: Understanding Battered Women's Contacts With Police, Angela Moe
Angela M. Moe
No abstract provided.
Blurring The Boundaries: Women's Criminality In The Context Of Abuse, Angela Moe
Blurring The Boundaries: Women's Criminality In The Context Of Abuse, Angela Moe
Angela M. Moe
No abstract provided.
Abject Economics: The Effects Of Battering On Women's Work And Employability, Angela M. Moe, Myrtle P. Bell
Abject Economics: The Effects Of Battering On Women's Work And Employability, Angela M. Moe, Myrtle P. Bell
Angela M. Moe
Research on the effects of battering on women’s lives has focused on poverty, homelessness, and welfare receipt, often centering on women who are uneducated or undereducated. The authors analyze how battering impacts the work and employability of women from various employment levels and backgrounds. Data were obtained through qualitative interviews with 19 residents of a domestic violence shelter, some of whom had obtained substantial education and built solid and lucrative careers prior to being abused. The women described instances in which battering had obstructed their ability to find work, maintain employment, and use their wages to establish greater economic independence …
Battered Women In The Restraining Order Process: Observations On A Court Advocacy Program, Angela M. Moe
Battered Women In The Restraining Order Process: Observations On A Court Advocacy Program, Angela M. Moe
Angela M. Moe
Between the months of January and May, 1998, the author spent approximately 150 hours as a legal advocate in a court advocacy program in southeastern Wisconsin that assists battered women obtain restraining orders. This article reports observations of how legal advocates in the program are affecting battered women's lives through their services as well as accounts of battered women's experiences in the court system and responses by court personnel to them. These observations are discussed in relation to existing research and theory on work with battered women and to the social context in which such work occurs.