This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by GAGNÉ, P. L. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                   What's this?

APPALACHIAN WOMEN

Violence and Social Control

The findings from case study research conducted in a small, rural central Appalachian community during the winter of 1987-1988 suggest that standard definitions of wife abuse obscure the elements of social control inherent in violent activities, while obviating the relationship between violence and other forms of social control. Three categories of control are developed. The first, normative control, refers to socially accepted ways in which women's lives are constrained by norms and ideology. The second, persuasive control, refers to nonviolent means of social control, including repeated verbal requests, withholding transportation, forced parenthood, and the use of stereotypes and ideologies to isolate women. The third, violence, refers to the threat and use of physical assault and the use of weapons to instill fear. The context-specific approach is used to demonstrate that social control is dependent on a culture and social structure which condone men's domination of women and that without cultural acceptance of and structural support for men's authority over women, violence would be less effective as a means of social control.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

				K. F. Parker and A. Reckdenwald Women and Crime in Context: Examining the Linkages Between Patriarchy and Female Offending Across Space Feminist Criminology, January 1, 2008; 3(1): 5 - 24. [Abstract] [PDF]

				A. C. Denham, P. Y. Frasier, E. G. Hooten, L. Belton, W. Newton, P. Gonzalez, M. Begum, and M. K. Campbell Intimate Partner Violence Among Latinas in Eastern North Carolina Violence Against Women, February 1, 2007; 13(2): 123 - 140. [Abstract] [PDF]

				A. Gallup-Black Twenty Years of Rural and Urban Trends in Family and Intimate Partner Homicide: Does Place Matter? Homicide Studies, May 1, 2005; 9(2): 149 - 173. [Abstract] [PDF]

				D. L. Stephens, R. P. Hill, and J. W. Gentry A Consumer-Behavior Perspective on Intimate Partner Violence Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, February 1, 2005; 34(1): 36 - 67. [Abstract] [PDF]

				L. H. Clarke Overcoming Ambivalence: The Challenges of Exploring Socially Charged Issues Qual Health Res, May 1, 2003; 13(5): 718 - 735. [Abstract] [PDF]

				M. W. BOERI Women After the Utopia: The Gendered Lives of Former Cult Members Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, June 1, 2002; 31(3): 323 - 360. [Abstract] [PDF]

				M. ADELMAN No Way Out: Divorce-Related Domestic Violence in Israel Violence Against Women, November 1, 2000; 6(11): 1223 - 1254. [Abstract] [PDF]

				N. SINAUER, J. M. BOWLING, K. E. MORACCO, C. W. RUNYAN, and J. D. BUTTS Comparisons among Female Homicides Occurring in Rural, Intermediate, and Urban Counties in North Carolina Homicide Studies, May 1, 1999; 3(2): 107 - 128. [Abstract] [PDF]

				L. K. Cummins, R. J. First, and B. G. Toomey Comparisons of Rural and Urban Homeless Women Affilia, December 1, 1998; 13(4): 435 - 453. [Abstract] [PDF]

				N. Websdale and B. Johnson An Ethnostatistical Comparison of the Forms and Levels of Woman Battering in Urban and Rural Areas of Kentucky Criminal Justice Review, September 1, 1998; 23(2): 161 - 196. [Abstract]

				P. J. SCHRAM Stereotypes About Vocational Programming for Female Inmates The Prison Journal, September 1, 1998; 78(3): 244 - 270. [Abstract] [PDF]

				D. R. Langford Social Chaos and Danger as Context of Battered Women's Lives Journal of Family Nursing, May 1, 1998; 4(2): 167 - 181. [Abstract] [PDF]

				T. ELLSWORTH and R. A. WEISHEIT The Supervision and Treatment of Offenders on Probation: Understanding Rural and Urban Differences The Prison Journal, June 1, 1997; 77(2): 209 - 228. [Abstract] [PDF]

				R. A. Weisheit and L. E. Wells Rural Crime and Justice: Implications for Theory and Research Crime Delinquency, July 1, 1996; 42(3): 379 - 397. [Abstract]

				N. WEBSDALE Rural Woman Abuse: The Voices of Kentucky Women Violence Against Women, December 1, 1995; 1(4): 309 - 338. [Abstract]