The Battered Woman and Shelters: The Social Construction of Wife Abuse (SUNY Series in Deviance and Social Control)

Type

Book

Authors

Donileen R. Loseke

ISBN 10

0791408329

ISBN 13

9780791408322

Tags

Partner Abuse, Women's Studies, Social Services & Welfare

Description

Arguing that we commonly understand "wife abuse" and the "battered woman" in terms of standardized images of problems and people, the author explores how these images inform and shape social services for women who have been assaulted. Using ethnographic data of shelter work from the perspective of workers, she shows how these standardized images affect organizational structure and how front-line workers make sense of their interventions into clients' lives. - from Amzon

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