Critical Reflections on Practice with Battered Women: Insights from Maya's Story
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Within the vast feminist-informed scholarship on violence against women, few attempts have been made to examine feminist assumptions underlying practice responses to violence against women.In this paper, through the lens of postmodernism, and with the narrative of "Maya," a young woman whose residency at a local shelter was regarded by all accounts as less than successful, we interrogate central assumptions that underlie contemporary feminist practice in battered women's shelters and conclude with thoughts on the implications of this analysis for practice with women who are or have experienced violence in their intimate relations.RESUME Parmi la vaste erudition informee feministe sur la violence envers les femmes, peu de tentatives on ete faites pour etudier les hypotheses feministes sous-jacentes aux reponses pratiques contre la violence envers les femmes.Dans cet article, a travers la lentille du post-modemisme, et avec la narration de "Maya", une jeune femme, dont son sejour a un abri local, a ete vu, d'apres tous les rapports comme etant moins qu' un succes nous questionnons les hypotheses centrales qui sont sous-jacentes a la pratique feministe contemporaine dans les foyers pour femmes battues et nous concluons en pensant aux implications de cette analyse pour la pratique avec les femmes qui vivent ou qui ont vecu la violence dans leur relation intime.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".