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Domestic Violence at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender

Challenges and Contributions to Understanding Violence Against Marginalized Women in Diverse Communities

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Ida Dupont

Pace University

This article provides a comprehensive review of the emerging domestic violence literature using a race, class, gender, sexual orientation intersectional analysis and structural framework fostered by women of color and their allies to understand the experiences and contexts of domestic violence for marginalized women in U.S. society. The first half of the article lays out a series of challenges that an intersectional analysis grounded in a structural framework provides for understanding the role of culture in domestic violence. The second half of the article points to major contributions of such an approach to feminist methods and practices in working with battered women on the margins of society.

Key Words: culture and social structure • intersectionalities and domestic violence • multicultural domestic violence • race, class, gender, and domestic violence

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