| The Battered Woman and Shelters: The Social Construction of Wife Abuse Contributor(s): Loseke, Donileen R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791408329 ISBN-13: 9780791408322 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Abuse - General |
| Dewey: 362.829 |
| LCCN: 90-26166 |
| Series: Suny Series in Deviance and Social Control |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Arguing that we commonly understand wife abuse and the battered woman in terms of standardized images of problems and people, the author explores how these images inform and shape social services for women who have been assaulted. Using ethnographic data of shelter work from the perspective of workers, she shows how these standardized images affect organizational structure and how front-line workers make sense of their interventions into clients' lives. |
