Sisterhood Is Not Enough: The Invisibility of Mothering in Shelter Practice With Battered Women

Krane, Julia; Davies, Linda

doi:10.1177/0886109902017002003

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“…Some preliminary work in this regard has focused on mothering in the context of battered women's shelters (Davies and Krane, 2003;Krane and Davies, 2002). Shelters represent a primary resource for battered women.…”

Section: Mothers and Domestic Violencementioning

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Collaborate with caution: protecting children, helping mothers

Davies

Krane

2006

Critical Social Policy

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Recent recognition of the effects of domestic violence on children has given rise to calls for collaborative interventions between the arenas of child protection and domestic violence. Amidst this flurry of activity, little serious consideration has been given to the subjectivity of mothers who are simultaneously involved with child protection agencies and battered women's shelters. Without explicit engagement of mothers as subjects in their own right, collaboration has the potential to exacerbate their already trying circumstances. Our paper reviews the child protection context in which women as mothers are simultaneously relegated to the periphery of concern and called upon to act as 'mother protectors' in response to children at risk. We then explore mothering in the context of domestic violence and their relative invisibility in shelter settings. We conclude with a call to render women's experiences of domestic violence and mothering both visible and supported in these collaborative efforts.

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Section: Mothers and Domestic Violencementioning

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Collaborate with caution: protecting children, helping mothers

Davies

Krane

2006

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“…D'autre part, certaines participantes ont rapporté que les intervenantes en maisons d'hébergement ont reconnu leur vécu de violence, mais n'avaient pas tenu compte de leurs expériences en tant que mères. Ces données supportent les résultats des travaux de Krane et Davies (2002, 2007 qui avancent que la maternité peut être « invisible » dans des maisons d'héber-gement, puisque ces organismes s'adressent davantage aux femmes en tant que femmes et conjointes.…”

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“…Cette approche a été critiquée pour sa tendance à universaliser l'expé-rience des femmes et pour ne pas tenir compte d'autres formes d'oppression comme celles reliées à la race, à la classe sociale ou à l'orientation sexuelle. L'influence du féminisme radical a bien souvent rendu « invisible » l'expé-rience de la maternité de ces femmes, en proposant une vision homogène de leur vécu et en occultant le fait que les femmes peuvent avoir des besoins différents, notamment en ce qui a trait à leur maternité (Krane et Davies, 2002). Or, les femmes qui ont des enfants ont des expériences particulières, ce qui remet en question l'idée qu'il existe un vécu partagé par toutes les femmes victimes de violence conjugale.…”

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“…En outre, les féministes intersectionnelles dans le domaine de la maternité ont aussi insisté sur la diversité des expériences NPS, vol. 22, n o 2 vécues par les femmes (Krane et Davies, 2002 ;Featherstone, 1999 ;Glenn, 1994). S'inscrivant dans cette perspective, Glenn (1994) propose de définir la maternité (mothering) comme une relation, culturellement et historiquement variable, à travers laquelle un individu prend soin (nurture and care) d'un autre individu ; la maternité est expérimentée dans divers contextes sociaux, variant en fonction des ressources et des contraintes matérielles et culturelles.…”

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« Ça se sépare-tu ça, la femme pis la mère ? »

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Le présent article fait état des résultats d’une recherche qui visait à documenter les expériences de la maternité des femmes vivant dans un contexte de concomitance de violence conjugale et de mauvais traitements envers les enfants. Les résultats présentent le point de vue de ces femmes, notamment en ce qui a trait à l’intervention des services de santé et des services sociaux avec lesquels elles ont été en contact.

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“…For Beaman-Hall and Nason-Clark (1997), the focus was on the relationships between transition house service providers, the clergy and women's groups in Atlantic Canada, with regard to the issue of family violence. Transition housing for battered women, this time in a 'large Canadian city', was also the site of Krane and Davies' (2002) analysis of attitudes towards mothering in 'shelter practice with battered women'. Bridgman's (2002) examination focused on the impacts of an innovative shelter for chronically homeless women in Toronto.…”

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Landscapes on the Margins: Gender and homelessness in Canada

Klodawsky

2006

Gender, Place & Culture

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This introductory article examines the issue of gendered homelessness and asks why so little academic feminist writing addresses this theme. The article begins with reference to a feminist novel-The Longings of Women by Marge Piercy-that does tackle this matter. The invisibility of the novel's homeless character is used as a way of introducing some distinctions between women's and men's homelessness. More generally, the article has two objectives. The first is to examine what feminist and other critical geographers have said, conceptually and empirically, about gendered homelessness, especially in Canada but also in other Western contexts. The second involves highlighting the problematic nature of too great a focus on visibility in relation to gendered homelessness, and offers an alternative reading drawn from examining the relations of bodies and urban space in conjunction with a discussion about the politics of scale and difference. All told, this collection of essays is an effort to highlight the often hidden and variable nature of gendered homelessness in Ontario, Canada and to argue that the theme is worthy of greater attention by feminist geographers.

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Sisterhood Is Not Enough: The Invisibility of Mothering in Shelter Practice With Battered Women

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