| Description |
xii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Reconciling the personal and political through collaborative research -- Battered women: what life experience reveals -- Women in violent relationships: why they stayed -- From victim to survivor: how they left -- Social network members' responses to battered women -- The women's interaction with formal network members -- Social network members' values -- The shelter experience -- Rites of passage to a life without violence -- After shelter: poor and homeless women and children -- The children and work of battered women -- Summary and conclusions |
| Summary |
"This title documents the results of an urban (USA) field study of battered women and their social network members. It analyses woman-abuse in a life history perspective, and through values and network analysis reveals the relationship between personal crisis and traditional attitudes towards women, marriage, the family, and violence." -- Back cover |
| Analysis |
Family Violence - United States |
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United States Battered women |
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Wife Abuse - United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Abused women -- United States -- Case studies.
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Abused women -- United States -- Psychology -- Case studies.
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Battered woman syndrome -- United States -- Case studies.
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Wife abuse -- United States -- Case studies.
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Battered Women -- psychology.
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| LC no. |
89070148 |
| ISBN |
0415043948 |
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0415043956 (paperback) |
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