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Natalie J. Sokoloff, Editor with Christina Pratt. Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings on Race, Class, Gender, and Culture.

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Natalie J. Sokoloff, Editor with Christina Pratt. Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings on Race, Class, Gender, and Culture. Rutgers University Press, 2005. Reviewed by Diane Shoos, Michigan Technological University

Questions of gender, race, and class have long been at issue in, if not at the center of, discussions of domestic violence. In the late 1970's and 1980's, research on and narratives by abused women demonstrated that race, education, and economic or professional status do not provide immunity from domestic violence. The subsequent focus on the 'universality' of abuse, fostered by white, middle-class biases within feminism more broadly, contributed to a tendency to theorize domestic violence outside of social categories or greatly minimize their significance. By the mid-1990's, however, spurred on by the voices of marginalized...

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