Intimate Partner Violence: Race, Social Class, and Masculinity

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Mansley examines how race and class impact the construction of masculinity as demonstrated through men's accounts of intimate partner violence. Using an Ecological Nested Model, she examines race and class differences in the role that institutions and culture play in promoting violence against women. These differences support the call for culturally sensitive batterer treatment programs that are not just reflective of race, but of class as well. Knowledge of these differences would allow treatm…

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Title Statements

Full title :Intimate Partner Violence : Race, Social Class, and Masculinity.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC
Place of Publication:El Paso
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (211 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781593325527, 1593325525
oclc:ocn774494033
LC Classification:HV6626 .M336 2009
Dewey Decimal:362.8292

Expressing race, social class, and masculinity through intimate partner violence -- Masculinity and other risk factors for intimate partner violence -- Researching intimate partner violence -- The microsystem level : the continuing influence of childhood socialization on adult masculinity -- The mesosystem level : "masculinity and the double bind" performing gender in relationships -- The exosystem level : the impact of institutions on intimate partner violence -- The macrosystem level : using violence to establish and maintain masculinity -- Policy recommendations for developing culturally sensitive treatment programs.

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Electronic publications Family & Relationships -- Abuse Intimate partner violence Masculinité Masculinity Race -- Aspect social Race -- Social aspects Violence entre partenaires