title: There Is No Strength in Emotions: The Role of Street Enculturation in Influencing How Victimized Homeless Women Speak About Violence.
abstract: This article is based on analysis of 76 in-depth qualitative interviews conducted with homeless women in Los Angeles. What is revealed are three patterns of street enculturation-"low-," "medium-," and "high street"- which are linked to attitudes women professed to hold about violence. In essence, the degree to which a woman had adopted a "street orientation" is seen to influence how she spoke of violence during earlier portions of the interview. However, several "medium-street" and "high-street" women subsequently acknowledged (directly or indirectly) that they were "fronting" for the interviewer to preserve a tough façade. When they opened up about their real feelings, the extent to which they had internalized the trauma of violence was revealed. Implications of these findings are explored.
authors: University of Western Ontario, London, Canada lhuey@uwo.ca.
authors: Laura
authors: L
authors: Huey
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D012919:Social Behavior; D012931:Social Environment; D012938:Social Perception; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: code of the street; gender; victimization; violence