Title Violence in the lives of black women : battered, black, and blue / Carolyn M. West, editor

Published NY : Haworth Press Inc., 2002 2013 New York : Routledge ,Taylor and Francis Group

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Description 1 online resource Contents Battered, black, and blue: an overview of violence in the lives of Black women / Carolyn M. West -- Black women and community violence: trauma, grief, and coping / Esther J. Jenkins -- Childhood sexual abuse in the lives of Black women: risk and resilience in a longitudinal study / Victoria L. Banyard [and others] -- Grounding our feet and hearts: Black women's coping strategies in psychologically abusive dating relationships / April L. Few, Patricia Bell-Scott -- "The straw that broke the camel's back": African American women's strategies for disengaging from abusive relationships / Janette Y. Taylor -- Living at the intersection: the effects of racism and sexism on Black rape survivors / Roxanne Donovan, Michelle Williams --Racialized sexual harassment in the lives of African American women / NiCole T. Buchanan, Alayne J. Ormerod -- "There's a stranger in this house": African American lesbians and domestic violence / Amorie Robinson -- Head and brain injuries experienced by African American women victims of intimate partner violence / Martha E. Banks, Rosalie J. Ackerman -- Talking back: research as an act of resistance and healing for African American women survivors of intimate male partner violence / Janette Y. Taylor -- Fragmented silhouettes / Salamishah Tillet -- Using celluloid to break the silence about sexual violence in the Black community / Aishah Shahidah Simmons -- Striving for a more excellent way / Rosalyn R. Nichols -- "I find myself at therapy's doorstep": summary and suggested readings on violence in the lives of Black women / Carolyn M. West Summary Break the silence surrounding Black women's experiences of violence! Written from a Black feminist perspective by therapists, researchers, activists, and survivors, Violence in the Lives of Black Women: Battered, Black, and Blue sheds new light on an understudied field. For too long, Black women have been suffering the effects of violence in painful silence. This book?winner of the Carolyn Payton Early Career Award for its contribution to the understanding of the role of gender in the lives of Black women?provides a forum where personal testimony and academic research meet to show you Notes "Violence inthe Lives of Black Women: Battered, Balck and Blue has been co-published simultaneously as Women &Therapy, Volume 25, Number 3/4 2002."--Page 3 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject Women -- Violence against -- United States African American women -- Violence against African American women -- Abuse of Victims of violent crimes -- United States -- Psychology Abused women -- United States -- Psychology Abused women -- Rehabilitation -- United States POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. Abused women -- Psychology Abused women -- Rehabilitation African American women -- Abuse of African American women -- Violence against Victims of violent crimes -- Psychology Women -- Violence against Gewalt Schwarze Frau United States USA Form Electronic book Author West, Carolyn M. (Carolyn Marie) ISBN 9781317787600 1317787609 9781317787617 1317787617 9781315808796 131580879X 1306288088 9781306288088

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