Catherine Flynn

Bio: Catherine Flynn is an academic researcher from Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. The author has contributed to research in topics: Participatory action research & Humanities. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 19 publications receiving 100 citations. Previous affiliations of Catherine Flynn include Université du Québec à Rimouski & Université de Montréal.

Child custody issues and co‐occurrence of intimate partner violence and child maltreatment: controversies and points of agreement amongst practitioners

Abstract: The situation of families undergoing separation in a context of co-occurrence of intimate partner violence (IPV) and child maltreatment raises certain issues related to child custody. The results presented in this paper were collected and analysed within the framework of a qualitative study aiming to identify the principal points of agreement and the main controversies amongst practitioners in several different types of organizations. Focus groups were held with a total of 43 practitioners from six different settings concerned with child custody in cases of co-occurrence of IPV and child maltreatment. Although they agreed on the importance of ensuring the safety of victims of violence, their views diverged on three points: (1) the importance of preserving the father–child relationship; (2) collaboration between voluntary organizations and semi-voluntary or legal agencies; and (3) consideration of cultural differences.

Les violences conjugales, familiales et structurelles : vers une perspective intégrative des savoirs

Abstract: La violence conjugale est un probleme social grave et persistant ; le tiers des femmes de la planete en a deja ete victime. Cet article vise a discuter des liens empiriques et theoriques entre les violences conjugales, familiales et structurelles. L’article debutera par une breve mise en contexte decrivant comment la violence conjugale s’est construite comme un probleme socio-penal au Quebec. Les principales lacunes des connaissances actuelles dans le domaine seront ensuite identifiees, demontrant ainsi la necessite de mieux comprendre les liens complexes entre les violences conjugales, familiales et structurelles, trois concepts dont les definitions pourraient s’enrichir et se completer mutuellement. Cet article soulignera l’importance de prendre en consideration les realites diversifiees auxquelles sont confrontes les acteurs concernes par ces violences (femmes, hommes et enfants), en privilegiant une analyse globale qui integre non seulement les facteurs individuels et interpersonnels, mais aussi les facteurs sociaux et structurels, notamment les oppressions liees au genre ou a d’autres marqueurs de l’identite sociale. La discussion sera enrichie par des modeles theoriques decrivant les differentes dynamiques de violences conjugales et familiales ainsi que par le feminisme intersectionnel, qui s’avere fort utile pour l’analyse des violences structurelles. La conclusion traitera des retombees potentielles d’une analyse des liens entre les violences conjugales, familiales et structurelles sur les politiques sociales et les programmes d’intervention pour les victimes, les agresseurs et les enfants exposes a la violence conjugale.

When structural violences create a context that facilitates sexual assault and intimate partner violence against street-involved young women

Abstract: This article presents findings from a participatory action research project conducted with a group of seven street-involved young women in the urban area of Quebec City (Canada). The objective of this research was to explore their experiences of homelessness through the lens of structural violence. Structural violence is the process through which social inequalities are produced. The data gathered through five focus groups revealed the presence of two gendered patterns of structural violence: social exclusion and social control. These two processes reinforce each other in a cycle. Indeed, the participants' strategies to overcome social exclusion and to fulfill their basic needs made them vulnerable to social control. In turn, social control had increased their financial difficulties and their fear of exclusion. These two processes of structural violence had also created contexts that facilitate sexual victimization and intimate partner violence.

Analyse intersectionnelle de l’oppression de mères racisées en contexte de violence conjugale

Abstract: En prenant appui sur la matrice du pouvoir de Collins (2000), le present article rend compte des resultats d’une recherche portant sur les experiences de maternite de femmes autochtones et de femmes racisees en contexte de violence conjugale. Les resultats sont presentes et discutes a la lumiere de la matrice du pouvoir de Collins.

Le projet Dauphine : laisser la parole aux jeunes femmes de la rue et agir ensemble pour lutter contre la violence structurelle par l’entremise de la recherche-action participative

Abstract: Alors que l’intersectionnalite est devenue, selon l’expression employee par Kathy Davis, un veritable « buzzword » dans le champ des etudes feministes, plusieurs questionnements persistent quant a son utilisation pour valoriser la parole des femmes marginalisees et l’inclure dans les pratiques sociales. Les auteures presentent une recherche-action participative realisee aupres d’un groupe de sept jeunes femmes de la rue de la region de Quebec, sur le theme de la violence structurelle. Une analyse du processus, a partir des criteres de scientificite de la recherche-action participative, montre la maniere dont les participantes se sont engagees dans la reflexion sur leur experience de la violence structurelle et dans l’experimentation de strategies pour la prevenir ou la surmonter ou encore y resister.

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Abstract: A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hook's new book Feminist Theory: from margin to center argues that the contemporary feminist movement must establish a new direction for the 1980s. Continuing the debates surrounding her controversial first book, Ain't I A Woman, bell hooks suggests that feminists have not succeeded in creating a mass movem A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hook's new book Feminist Theory: from margin to center argues that the contemporary feminist movement must establish a new direction for the 1980s. Continuing the debates surrounding her controversial first book, Ain't I A Woman, bell hooks suggests that feminists have not succeeded in creating a mass movement against sexist oppression because the very foundation of women's liberation has, until now, not accounted for the complexity and diversity of female experience.

Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect. 2000.

Abstract: This report presents the major findings of the second cycle of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS-2003). In this initiative, data are collected every five years on child maltreatment reported to, and investigated by, child welfare agencies in Canada. The CIS is a collaborative effort of many partners: the federal, provincial and territorial governments; university-based researchers; the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society; child advocacy groups; and most important, child welfare service providers across the country.

Setting the agenda.

Abstract: It's Sunday evening and I have just I come in after a full day's battle in my allotment. In a week's time I will be a hundred miles away in Brighton having to jolt my usual Sunday mental processes out of making decisions about when to plant the beetroot and instead decide between competing emergency resolutions for space on the Congress agenda.