LEADER 03602oam 22006854a 450 001 996207147003316 005 20080722165038.0 010 $a0-8135-8045-5 010 $a0-8135-3759-2 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813537597 035 $a(CKB)1000000000246487 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10120770 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000187836 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11182513 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000187836 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10143222 035 $a(PQKB)10838400 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000409238 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12174958 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000409238 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10453395 035 $a(PQKB)11164482 035 $a(DE-B1597)529249 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813537597 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3032145 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10120770 035 $a(OCoLC)298184085 035 $a(VaAlASP)ASP1000611376/blww 035 $a(OCoLC)1163878516 035 $a(UK-CbPIL)4490020 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3032145 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000246487 100 $a20050218d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||a|a 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aKnowing what we know$b[electronic resource] $eAfrican American women's experiences of violence and violation /$fGail Garfield 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (xix, 260 p. ;$d24 cm.) 225 0 $aBlack women writers 311 0 $a0-8135-3660-X 311 0 $a0-8135-3659-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-260) and index. 330 $aIn recent years there has been an attempt by activists, service providers, and feminists to think about violence against women in more inclusive ways. In Knowing What We Know, activist and sociologist Gail Garfield argues that this effort has not gone far enough and that in order to understand violence, we must take the lived experiences of African American women seriously. Doing so, she cautions, goes far beyond simply adding voices of black women to existing academic and activist discourses, but rather, requires a radical shift in our knowledge of these women?s lives and the rhetoric used to describe them. Bringing together a series of life-history interviews with nine women, this unique study urges a departure from established approaches that position women as victims of exclusively male violence. Instead, Garfield explores what happens when women?s ability to make decisions and act upon those choices comes into conflict with cultural and social constraints. Chapters explore how women experience racialized or class-based violence, how these forms of violence are related to gendered violence, and what these violations mean to a woman?s sense of identity. By showing how women maintain, sustain, and in some instances regain their sense of human worth as a result of their experiences of violation, Garfield complicates the existing dialogue on violence against women in new and important ways. 606 $aAfrican American women$xCrimes against 606 $aAfrican American women$xViolence against 615 0$aAfrican American women$xCrimes against. 615 0$aAfrican American women$xViolence against. 676 $a362.82/92/08996073 700 $aGarfield$b Gail$f1964-$0960491 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 801 2$bVaAlASP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996207147003316 996 $aKnowing what we know$93081794 997 $aUNISA