Loading...
Women at risk : domestic violence and women's health /
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 - expl...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Thousand Oaks :
Sage Publications,
c1996.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Publisher description Table of contents only |
Table of 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.