Abusive Endings (eBook)

Separation and Divorce Violence against Women

Walter S. DeKeseredy, Molly Dragiewicz, Martin D. Schwartz (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
248 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96115-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Abusive Endingsoffers a thorough analysis of the social-science literature on one of the most significant threats to the health and well-being of women todayabuse at the hands of their male partners. The authors provide a moving description of why and how men abuse women in myriad ways during and after a separation or divorce. The material is punctuated with the stories and voices of both perpetrators and survivors of abuse, as told to the authors over many years of fieldwork. Written in a highly readable fashion, this book will be a useful resource for researchers, practitioners, activists, and policy makers.

Inhalt

Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Conceptualizing Separation/Divorce Violence against Women
2. The Extent and Distribution of Separation/Divorce Assault
3. New Technologies and Separation/Divorce Violence against Women
4. Explaining Separation/Divorce Violence against Women
5. Children as Collateral Victims of Separation/Divorce Woman Abuse
6. What Is to Be Done about Separation/Divorce Violence against Women?

Notes
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.5.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and Justice
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and Justice
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Abuse • abused women • Battered Women • Divorce • Domestic Abuse • domestic abuse research • domestic assault • domestic partner abuse • Domestic violence • domestic violence research • Family violence • Gender Studies • Interpersonal Violence • intimate violence • marital abuse • Partner Violence • Social Science • Social scientists • Sociologists • Sociology • violence after divorce • violence after separation • Violence Against Women • why women dont leave • womens studies
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96115-3 / 0520961153
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96115-9 / 9780520961159