Citation

Sokoloff NJ, Dupont I. Violence Against Women 2005; 11(1): 38-64.

Affiliation

John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801204271476

PMID

16043540

Abstract

This article provides a comprehensive review of the emerging domestic violence literature using a race, class, gender, sexual orientation intersectional analysis and structural framework fostered by women of color and their allies to understand the experiences and contexts of domestic violence for marginalized women in U.S. society. The first half of the article lays out a series of challenges that an intersectional analysis grounded in a structural framework provides for understanding the role of culture in domestic violence. The second half of the article points to major contributions of such an approach to feminist methods and practices in working with battered women on the margins of society.