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Overview
This moving book reshapes our understanding of the nature of woman abuse and makes a major contribution to a key issue for feminist campaigning and theory. The past 25 years of research on `battered′ women has focused on the psychological, sociological and political conditions which contribute to violence, and on women′s reasons for staying with violent and abusive partners. The author goes beyond the discourse of `victims′ and `survivors′ to offer new insights into the very specific and multifaceted nature of the abuses women experience - emotional as well as physical.Drawing on firsthand accounts, Kirkwood sheds new light both on the dynamics of abuse which afford abusers control over women and the resources and k
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Details
Format:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
10/11/1993
ISBN-10:
0803986858
ISBN-13:
9780803986855
Pages:
192
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
