The Battered Woman and Shelters

The Social Construction of Wife Abuse

von Donileen R. Loseke

216 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Explores how standardized images of problems and people inform and shape social services for women who have been assaulted.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.

• Reihe: SUNY Press
• ISBN: 9780791408322
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.02.1992
• Größe: 214 x 139 mm
• Verlag: State University of New York Press