The safety of home: violence against women
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2022
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Zufferey, C.
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Source details - Title: The Complexities of Home in Social Work, 2022, Ch.7, pp.98-110
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Chapter 7 takes an intersectional feminist approach to domestic violence and home. It argues that a sense of home is culturally, materially, socially, politically and economically constituted and experienced differently by different women. Domestic violence disrupts women’s sense of safety and home (Zufferey et al., 2016; Franzway et al., 2019). However, representations of home in domestic violence research are culturally and geographically embedded. Previous studies in South Africa have challenged how home is imagined in domestic violence through Western assumptions; the connections made between domestic violence and private material home spaces; and the spatial imaginings of home in domestic violence (Meth, 2003). The chapter argues that certain groups of women who experience domestic violence, such as Aboriginal and migrant women and women with a disability, can be further disadvantaged in their attempts to rebuild a safe home after escaping violence, within the context of broader social inequalities and ethnocentric services and support systems.
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Copyright 2022 Carole Zufferey and Chris Horsell with Kathryn Burgess, Amy Cleland, Kalpana Goel and Deirdre Tedmanson