Rural Woman Battering Study Guide
Please work on completing these study questions.  At least 2 of these questions will appear on your final exam. If you have written the answers out before the class you will be allowed to hand them in at the exam and will reduce the number of questions you will be required to answer in class.  The more you do with this study guide now, the less you will have to do on exam night.

1.  Identify and discuss the social structural obstacles in a rural community that keep battered women trapped in relationships and increase their risk of violence.

2.  How did the women Websdale studied resist battering?

3.  Discuss the role of rural patriarchy, economy, and social structure in battering.

4.  Discuss the nature of rural policing and the response of the judiciary to domestic violence.  How is rural police and judicial response different from and/or similar to urban police and judicial response?

5.  Does Websdale argue there is or is not sex symmetry in family violence.  Explain your answer.

6.   Why does Websdale believe that rural policing of domestic violence is "compromised"?

7.  According to Websdale, how are battered women in rural areas revictimized by the court?  Does this also happen in urban areas?  Why or why not?

8.  Identify the solutions to rural woman battering Websdale proposes.  Do you agree with al lof these proposals?  Why or why not?


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