| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 264 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part 1. Theoretical perspectives. Medicine and patriarchal violence -- Imagining woman battering: social knowledge, social therapy, and patriarchal benevolence -- Part 2. Health consequences. Women and children at risk: a feminist perspective on child abuse -- Killing the beast within: woman battering and female suicidality -- Preventing gendered homicide -- Part 3. Clinical interventions. Personal power and institutional victimization: treating the dual trauma of woman battering -- Clinical violence intervention: lessons from battered women -- Discharge planning with battered women -- Physicians and domestic violence: challenges for prevention |
| Summary |
Battering by men is the most significant cause of injury to women in our society. It is also a major cause of child abuse, murder, substance abuse and female suicide attempts. This volume, the result of 15 years of research conducted by the authors - a social worker and physician respectively - explores the theoretical perspectives of this dramatic expression of male domination, together with health consequences for women and clinical interventions. The authors found that the traditional resources women turn to for help reinforce male domination: the medical, psychiatric and behavioural pro |
| Analysis |
Women Abuse |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Wife abuse -- United States
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Family violence -- United States
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Abused wives -- Medical care -- United States
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Abused women -- Medical care -- United States
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Patriarchy -- United States
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Women's health services.
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Spouse Abuse
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Women's Health Services
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Attitude of Health Personnel
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Battered Women
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Domestic Violence
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Women's health services
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Abused wives -- Medical care
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Abused women -- Medical care
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Family violence
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Patriarchy
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Wife abuse
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| SUBJECT |
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Flitcraft, Anne, 1948-
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| ISBN |
9781452247151 |
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1452247153 |
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9781483345376 |
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1483345378 |
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132228346X |
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9781322283463 |
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