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... Lives, Mean Streets: Violence in the Lives of Homeless Women Merry Morash, Women ... Rebecca Weichsel, Megan Duesterhaus, Leith Lombas, and Kristina Dzara all played a crucial ... higher rate than homeless males (Janus, Burgess,... more
... Lives, Mean Streets: Violence in the Lives of Homeless Women Merry Morash, Women ... Rebecca Weichsel, Megan Duesterhaus, Leith Lombas, and Kristina Dzara all played a crucial ... higher rate than homeless males (Janus, Burgess, Hartman, and McCormack 1987; Whitbeck ...
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Those who lose a loved one to homicide are considered crime victims, and accordingly may be eligible for state services and compensation. Yet institutionalized constructs about good/innocent and bad/guilty victims can trigger law... more
Those who lose a loved one to homicide are considered crime victims, and accordingly may be eligible for state services and compensation. Yet institutionalized constructs about good/innocent and bad/guilty victims can trigger law enforcement agents’ presumptions of how deserving a homicide loss survivor is of resources, responsiveness and support. These attitudes can impact discretionary decision-making about assistance for survivors. Using qualitative in-depth interviews with Homicide Unit and Victim Services Unit personnel at one agency, this study explores these perceptions and their impacts on advocacy for homicide loss survivors. Ultimately, there are justice implications for this population.
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Background: In successful experiential learning, cycling between experience and reflection promotes higher-order thinking skills. Emotions can either help or hinder productive reflection. The role of emotion as it applies to reflection... more
Background: In successful experiential learning, cycling between experience and reflection promotes higher-order thinking skills. Emotions can either help or hinder productive reflection. The role of emotion as it applies to reflection cycles within experiential learning is not well understood, especially in the criminal justice area. Purpose: The research presented in this article examined how students’ emotional reactions shaped their reflection via journal entries and identified key points where these reactions are able to be routed into more developed phases of reflection. Methodology/Approach: Content analysis was used to study five sets of 10 students’ reflective journals during a college course entitled “The Role of Canines in Inmate Rehabilitation.” Findings/Conclusions: The exploratory study yields the themes of “Unpacking Emotions,” which examines emotions that emerged in students’ reflective journals, “Pivot Points” designating critical shifts in thinking, “Failure to Lau...
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This article grows from research in the form of in-depth interviews with female exotic dancers but foregrounds the ways that the author's lived experiences were informed by the interviewees and other aspects of the project. While... more
This article grows from research in the form of in-depth interviews with female exotic dancers but foregrounds the ways that the author's lived experiences were informed by the interviewees and other aspects of the project. While engaging and then complicating feminist theory and methodology, this article focuses on howthe authorwas drawninto this research in variousways, including conversations, observations, and confrontations. Narratives outline the process of her disillusionment about her own safety as a woman. Overall, this piece challenges the notion of any one, fixed identity as the author negotiates meanings of herself related to objectification and privilege.
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Page 1. ''where am i going to stop?'': exotic dancing, fluid body boundaries, and effects on identity Jennifer K. Wesely University of Central Florida, Florida, USA Female exotic dancers earn a living... more
Page 1. ''where am i going to stop?'': exotic dancing, fluid body boundaries, and effects on identity Jennifer K. Wesely University of Central Florida, Florida, USA Female exotic dancers earn a living through particularly objectified and sexualized constructions of their bodies. ...
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ABSTRACT Social constructions of race, gender, and class are known to shape stereotypes that condition interaction and behavior across various contexts, including the criminal justice system. From an intersectional framework emphasizing... more
ABSTRACT Social constructions of race, gender, and class are known to shape stereotypes that condition interaction and behavior across various contexts, including the criminal justice system. From an intersectional framework emphasizing dual marginalization, this study relates in-depth interviews with women ex-offenders regarding their justice system experiences to explore perceived race and gender themed discrimination. Findings of reported pejorative language and degrading behavior reaffirm a well-documented generalized assumption by women of color that disparate treatment is normative. Discussion centers on how these views are detrimental to rehabilitation enrollment, related implications for offender programming objectives, and the utility of intersectionality theory for analyzing related justice topics.
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Bodybuilding is a body technology that involves the building of muscle through hard work lifting weights. Although technologies like bodybuilding can reify dominant constructions of gender. I suggest that bodybuilding also reflects the... more
Bodybuilding is a body technology that involves the building of muscle through hard work lifting weights. Although technologies like bodybuilding can reify dominant constructions of gender. I suggest that bodybuilding also reflects the attempts of participants to be active agents in the choices they make about their bodies. This article addresses the body as a work in progress and uses in-depth interviews with male and female bodybuilders to examine the ways that gender identity is consistently negotiated as participants reshape their bodies. This ongoing identity negotiation is reflected in the ways participants assess various body technologies, like bodybuilding, muscle-enhancing drugs, and cosmetic surgery as natural or unnatural. Based on the responses, I explore the idea of a natural/unnatural continuum as a framework for understanding the ways that the participants fluctuate in their assessments of hugely built and other technologized bodies.
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Page 1. http://vaw.sagepub.com/ Violence Against Women http://vaw.sagepub.com/ content/11/3/414.citation The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/1077801204272661 2005 11: 414 Violence Against ...
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In a modern patriarchal society, women often receive the message that their appearance and sexuality dictate their value as human beings. Some populations, like exotic dancers, capitalize on this construction by receiving monetary rewards... more
In a modern patriarchal society, women often receive the message that their appearance and sexuality dictate their value as human beings. Some populations, like exotic dancers, capitalize on this construction by receiving monetary rewards for the visual and physical consumption of their sexual bodies. Through interviews with female exotic dancers, the author investigates the ways that these women were sexualized at a young age, often through abuse. The author probes how they negotiated both their child and adult sexual selves and how this intersected with feelings of power and powerlessness and their eventual choices to become dancers. This study demonstrates the complexity of the lives of these women as they try to reclaim power by selling their sexualized bodies for money while still enduring abuse within this context.
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... Exotic Dancing and the Negotiation of Identity: The Multiple Uses of Body Technologies ... In fact,the women use body technologies for multiple purposes but make choicesabout theirbodiesinacontextthatrewardsthemforonlysexual-ized... more
... Exotic Dancing and the Negotiation of Identity: The Multiple Uses of Body Technologies ... In fact,the women use body technologies for multiple purposes but make choicesabout theirbodiesinacontextthatrewardsthemforonlysexual-ized one-dimensional meanings. ...
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Women who participate in outdoor recreational activities reap many physical and emotional benefits from their experiences. However, gender-related feelings of objectification, vulnerability, and fear in this space limit women’s... more
Women who participate in outdoor recreational activities reap many physical and emotional benefits from their experiences. However, gender-related feelings of objectification, vulnerability, and fear in this space limit women’s participation. In this study, the authors investigate how women pursue their enjoyment of urban outdoor recreation at South Mountain Park in Phoenix, Arizona, despite their perceptions and experiences related to fear of violence. Through surveys and interviews with women who recreate at South Mountain, the authors look at the ways the women cope with their fear using various strategies. This study reveals the gender-related conflicts that persist for participants, who grapple with their appreciation of uncompromised nature and their need to feel safe in this environment. Ultimately, they illustrate how an ongoing negotiation exists for the women as the authors balance choices and concerns related to their outdoor recreation and what aspects of surveillance an...
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Women's violence has been viewed in gendered ways that are limited and one-dimensional. Such constructions are problematic in that they do little to address underlying disadvantages that foster this violence. This study investigates... more
Women's violence has been viewed in gendered ways that are limited and one-dimensional. Such constructions are problematic in that they do little to address underlying disadvantages that foster this violence. This study investigates the complex context in which women’s violence is rooted. Through in-depth interviews with two marginalized populations of women—those who are homeless and those who work as exotic dancers—the author explores participants’ lived experiences of cumulative victimization characterized by abuse and violence, economic vulnerability, gender inequality, loss and dislocation, degradation, and social exclusion. This context severely constrains opportunities and choices available to the women in terms of livelihood, safety, coping, and survival. The women engage in violence as a way of resisting and responding to their cumulative victimization, and this violence has multiple meanings and is manifested in different ways. Ultimately, this study contributes to und...
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Page 1. STRESS AND FEAR AMONG URBAN-PROXIMATE FEMALE RECREATIONISTS: EXPERIENCE, EXPLANATION, AND ALTERNATIVES Ingrid E. Schneider, University of Minnesota Jennifer K. Wesely, University of ...
This article explores the relationships between homeless women and their intimate partners. Based on results from a focus group of homeless women at a domestic violence shelter and 20 in-depth interviews with women at two centers for the... more
This article explores the relationships between homeless women and their intimate partners. Based on results from a focus group of homeless women at a domestic violence shelter and 20 in-depth interviews with women at two centers for the homeless, the authors suggest that the nature of the intimate relationships homeless women have are varied and impact their social exclusion and subsequent homelessness in different ways. For instance, women may become homeless without their partners or with them, by force or by choice. Homeless women may be financially dependent on the partner, but they also may be providing the only income for the family. Ultimately, the authors explicate the complex intersection between women’s homelessness and their adult relationships to add to the understanding of homeless women.
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... View all references; Silbert and Pines 198127. Silbert , Mimi H. and Ayala M. Pines . ... Rather than providing a comprehensive overview of a cycle of violence theory (ample literature reviews of Widom's cycle of violence are... more
... View all references; Silbert and Pines 198127. Silbert , Mimi H. and Ayala M. Pines . ... Rather than providing a comprehensive overview of a cycle of violence theory (ample literature reviews of Widom's cycle of violence are available in Fagan 200113. Fagan , Abigail A. 2001 . ...