May 2006
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Publications (13)
January 1998
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November 1997
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314 Citations
"Women at Risk" challenges current explanations of domestic violence and argues that reframing health in terms of coercion and violence is key to the prevention of some of women's most vexing problems. Presenting major findings of studies conducted over 15 yrs, [the authors] maintain that the medical, psychiatric, and behavioral problems exhibited by battered women stem from a so-called "dual trauma," in which the coercive strategies used by their partners converge with discriminatory institutional practices. . . . In addition, the authors progressively promote the notion of "shelter" not as a facility or service but as a political space to be opened within families, communities, and the economy—a space where toleration for male coercion ends. [This volume is a resource for] medical professionals, mental health practitioners, social workers, and researchers, as well as advanced students in health sciences, social work, and psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
February 1996
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Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
January 1996
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February 1995
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Women s Health Issues
February 1995
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International Journal of Health Services
This article explores the importance of woman battering for female suicidality, with special attention to the link among black women. Suicidality has classically been framed with a distinctly male bias. As a result, suicide attempts (a predominantly female event) have been defined as "failed suicides" and the distinctive social context of suicidality among women has been missed. The authors propose that suicidality among battered women is evoked by the "entrapment" women experience when they are subjected to "coercive control" by abusive men. A literature review highlights the probable importance of male violence as a cause of female suicidality. Pursuing this possibility, we assess the significance of battering in a sample of women who have attempted suicide, the characteristics of battered women who attempt suicide, and the appropriateness of the medical response. The results indicate that battering may be the single most important cause of female suicidality, particularly among black and pregnant women. The implications of this finding for theory and clinical intervention are discussed.
February 1993
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Health Affairs
August 1991
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The USA is said to be a violent nation. Historically, violence and infectious disease have been the two leading causes of premature death, yet until recently the field of public health has given little attention to violent behaviour. This book presents the first full epidemiological picture of violence in American society. The aim of this volume is to draw together what is known about violence in our society, and to lead the way towards involving health professionals in education, prevention, and intervention. The authors, all experts in their fields, examine child, spouse, and elder abuse; sexual assault and rape; suicide; assaultive violence; and homicide. To each topic they bring an analysis of key issues in epidemiology, causal and risk factors, outcomes, and interventions.
February 1988
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International Journal of Health Services
Viewing child abuse through the prism of woman battering reveals that both problems originate in conflicts over gender identity and male authority. Data indicate that men, not women, typically commit serious child abuse. A study of the mothers of child abuse victims shows that battering is the most common context for child abuse, that the battering male is the typical child abuser, that the battered mothers have no distinctive pathology in their backgrounds, and that clinicians respond punitively to the battered mothers. The child abuse establishment assigns responsibility for abuse to mothers regardless of who assaults the child, and responds punitively to women, withholding vital resources and often removing the child to foster care, if women are battered or otherwise fail to meet expectations of "good mothering." The combination of male control, misleading psychological knowledge about women's propensity for "bonding," and sanctions used to enforce gender stereotypes of motherhood combine to increase the entrapment and inequality from which battering and child abuse originate, a process termed "patriarchal mothering." The best way to prevent child abuse is through "female empowerment."
Citations (10)
... Because hostile sexism predicts negative attitudes toward nontraditional women, we reasoned that men's masculine gender nostalgia ought to be more related to hostile, versus benevolent, sexism. Additionally, given prior work finding that hostile sexism is associated with acceptance of violence against women (Bareket & Fiske, 2023;Bosson et al., 2020Bosson et al., , 2022Connor et al., 2017;Cross et al., 2019) and nontraditional women in particular (Agadullina et al., 2022;Stark & Flitcraft, 1996), we reasoned that masculine gender nostalgia would similarly be related with acceptance of violence against women. ...
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January 1996
... Battered women and their children often are reluctant to disclose the degree of abuse present within their relationships in the family court setting, particularly if there has been no DV/SA intervention (McMahon & Pence, 1994;Stark & Flitcraft, 1998). The reluctance to disclose DV/SA is particularly strong where immigration concerns are part of the family's story. ...
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January 1998
... The tendency for punitive disciplinary practices, in particular, to pass from one generation to the next has attracted ongoing research attention (e.g., Merrill, Hervig, & Milner, 1996; Milner et al., 2010; Narang & Contreras, 2005; Straus & Smith, 1990; Tajima & Harachi, 2010); these patterns have been demonstrated to extend across as many as three generations (e.g., Dubow, Huesmann, & Boxer, 2003). When one considers literature on physical abuse per se, although the majority of parents with histories of physical abuse do not become abusers (e.g., Berlin, Appleyard, & Dodge, 2011; Stark & Flitcraft, 1988; Zigler & Hall, 1989), mothers who are abused show perpetration rates 12 times higher than mothers with more supportive childhood experiences (Ertem, Leventhal, & Dobbs, 2000). Thus, for both abusive and less punitive types of discipline, disciplinary history appears to play a critical role in shaping disciplinary responding as an adult. ...
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January 1988
... Women are also denied agency over their bodies and the right to consented care due to the perception that they are ignorant. Feminist scholars contend that the "aetiology of dominance is based on the patriarchal structure of society that is built on male superiority, female subordination, and sex-stereotyped roles and expectations'' [57][58][59]. Hence, women cannot be expected to wield any power in the delivery room when they have no such power in society. ...
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November 1997
... Galtung further revealed that psychological and verbal abuse are direct violence. Stark, Anne, and William [3] defined structural violence as the confiscation of someone' rights through the use of ideas, and direct violence as the confiscation of someone' rights or interest through the use physical violence. ...
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February 1979
International Journal of Health Services
... We use the term "perspective" to represent explanations of CM and CPA that are not well-developed models or theories, but are essentially the lens through which an author attempts to understand CPA. A perspective provides a framework that functions to define what might be included in an explanation of CPA (e.g., a psychiatric perspective, Kempe et al., 1962;a neuropsychological perspective, Elliott, 1988; a feminist perspective, Stark & Filtcraft, 1988). In contrast, models and theories provide more specificity as to the causes of CPA. ...
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February 1988
International Journal of Health Services
... [41] AILE IÇI ŞIDDETE BAKIŞ AÇISI Aile içi şiddet, konuyla ilgili uzmanlar arasında bile gizli ve dirençli bir aile sorunu olarak kabul edilmektedir. [42] Kadın haklarının ağır derecede ihlal edilmesi konusu ile başarılı bir şekilde mücadele etmek için, aile içi şiddetin toplum tarafından reddedilmesi ve profesyoneller arasında bu duruma karşı tutumların kesin bir dille sergilenmesi gereklidir. [43,44] Ayrıca, toplumsal cinsiyet ayrımcılığı ve kadının aile içindeki geleneksel rolü hakkındaki kavramlar, kadınların eğitim ve istihdam olanaklarından daha az yararlanabilmesini ve sonuç olarak onların ekonomik, toplumsal ve siyasi katılımlarının daha düşük olmasını yol açmaktadır. ...
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Aile İçi Şiddet
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February 1985
The Sociological Review Monographs
... However, some victims feel that suicide is the only way out; they are entrapped in prison, with a sense of being possessed, unable to flee, and enduring abuse that gets more severe, beyond what they can handle. As argued by Stark (2007) and Flitcraft and Stark (1995), it is the sense of entrapment for such women that may lead to them committing suicide: the feeling of being trapped and caged by perpetrators' tactics of possession (Humphreys and Thiara 2003). ...
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February 1995
International Journal of Health Services
... Domestic violence specifically became part of the formal national US public health agenda through the efforts of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who facilitated a crucial conference on domestic violence in 1985, when he also testified about it before a Congressional Committee (Senate Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism, October 30, 1985). The subsequent development of domestic violence as a public health issue in the US is widely documented (Flitcraft 1993;Rosenberg and Fenley 1991). ...
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February 1993
Health Affairs
... The present study also revealed that the physicians' tendency or lack of inclination to define a woman's experience of abuse or violence as wife abuse is affected by the extent to which they blame the woman for the situation, which is strongly related to the traditional and patriarchal sociocultural context of Palestinian society in particular and of Arab societies in general. Numerous studies have shown that the disposition of physicians to be involved in assessment and identification of battered women is largely influenced by definitions of the problem (Flitcraft, 1995;Gerbert et al., 2002). This study did not examine how Palestinian physicians respond when they actually encounter a battered woman, when they themselves recognize and assess the woman's experience as violent, or when she actually identifies herself as a battered woman. ...
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February 1995
Women s Health Issues