ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 takes an intersectional feminist approach to domestic violence and home. It argues that a sense of home is culturally, materially, socially, politically and economically constituted and experienced differently by different women. Domestic violence disrupts women’s sense of safety and home (Zufferey et al., 2016; Franzway et al., 2019). However, representations of home in domestic violence research are culturally and geographically embedded. Previous studies in South Africa have challenged how home is imagined in domestic violence through Western assumptions; the connections made between domestic violence and private material home spaces; and the spatial imaginings of home in domestic violence (Meth, 2003). The chapter argues that certain groups of women who experience domestic violence, such as Aboriginal and migrant women and women with a disability, can be further disadvantaged in their attempts to rebuild a safe home after escaping violence, within the context of broader social inequalities and ethnocentric services and support systems.
