The framing safety project: Photographs and narratives by battered women
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This article describes the Framing Safety Project that the author developed to do collaborative, community action/education research with battered women about the meaning of safety in their lives. The project is built on the use of participant-generated photographs and photo-elicitation interviews as methods for exploring with women, in support group settings, the meanings of violence in their lives and their approaches to creating safer spaces. Although visual sociologists have used variations of these methods, particularly to study the experiences of children, the author combines them in a uniquely feminist approach that leads from the women's photography and interviews to a community education and action component. The author describes the process of developing and implementing this project with Mexican and South Asian immigrant women and discusses the ways in which its methodological approach serves to amplify the voices of silenced women, and to offer opportunities for community education and social action.
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The Framing Safety project found that providing means for survivors of violence to tell their own stories and take ownership of this process resulted in a feeling of empowerment among the women.
“Other interventions like the ‘Framing Safety project’ [35], which focused on promoting agency and self-empowerment among survivors of violence, found that by providing means through which survivors of violence could tell their own stories and take ownership of this process, there was a resulting feeling of empowerment among the women.”
From A systematic review of intimate partner violence interventions focused on improving social support and/ mental health outcomes of survivors (2020) · cites this paper as [35]
Nine of the reviewed studies (3 RCTs, 3 pre-post evaluations, 3 qualitative research) consisted of community-based interventions.
“9 (3 RCTs, 3 pre-post evaluations, 3 qualitative research) of the studies we reviewed consisted of interventions described as being community-based [34–42].”
From A systematic review of intimate partner violence interventions focused on improving social support and/ mental health outcomes of survivors (2020) · cites this paper as [35]
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- Authors
- Frohmann, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Chicago (US)
- Corresponding author
- Frohmann, Lisa
- Venue
- Violence Against Women
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2005-11
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1396-1419
- ISSN
- 1077-8012 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-8448
- OpenAlex
- W2615233775
- Cited by
- 100
- References
- 40
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- FWCI
- 4.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Violence Against Women (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Keywords
- battered women, intimate partner violence, photo-elicitation interviews, community education, social action, support groups, Mexican immigrant women, South Asian immigrant women
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