Summary
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Drawing on his ethnographic research in rural areas of Kentucky, the author of this book presents a thorough look at the experiences of battered women in rural communities. Neil Websdale demonstrates how rural patriarchy and an insidious ol’ boy’s network of law enforcement and local politics sustains and reproduces the subordinate, vulnerable, isolated position of many rural women. Taking into account that traditional patterns of intervention can often put women in isolated communities at further risk, the author recommends a coordinated multi-agency approach to rural battering, spearheaded by the agencies of state feminism.
Rural Battering and Social Policies
Rural Battering and Social Policies
Introduction
The Role of Community Responses to Rural Woman Battering
In preceding chapters I drew attention to the fact that rural families are more privatized, isolated, and exhibit more traditional gender stereotyping. In these rural families, rates of marriage are higher than in their urban counterparts, and cohabitation appears to be less easily tolerated. Rural women are more closely tied to housework and child care. If rural women do work for wages outside of the home, they not only earn less than rural men in comparable paid labor, they also earn significantly less than their urban peers. Indeed, as I pointed out in Chapter 2, the earnings gap between men and women has been growing in rural communities ...
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