Women at risk : domestic violence and women's health

Women at risk : domestic violence and women's health / Evan Stark, Anne Flitcraft.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stark, Evan
Other Authors: Flitcraft, Anne, 1948-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, ©1996.
Subjects:
Wife abuse > United States.
Family violence > United States.
Abused wives > Medical care > United States.
Abused women > Medical care > United States.
Patriarchy > United States.
Women's health services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Women's health services
Abused wives > Medical care
Abused women > Medical care
Family violence
Patriarchy
Wife abuse
United States
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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.

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