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Home truths about domestic violence : feminist influences on policy and practice : a reader edited by Jalna Hanmer and Catherine Itzin with Sheila Quaid and Debra Wigglesworth.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2000Description: xiv, 408 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415241561
  • 041524157X (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.8292 HOM
Summary: This reader which contributes to the understanding of domestic violence from a policy and practice perspective includes: Part 1 -Women's experiences of violence from known men in the home; Part 2 - Children's experiences of violence in the home; Part 3 - Women who fight back: experiences and outcomes; Part 4 - Influencing state policies on violence against women from known men; Part 5 - Partnership approaches by statutory and voluntary agencies; Part 6 - Decreasing the violence of men. Appendix 1: Families without fear: Women's Aid agenda for action on domestic violence; Appendix 2: The Duluth domestic abuse intervention project power and control wheel.
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Book Book Vine library TRO 362.8292 HOM Available FV13070420

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This reader which contributes to the understanding of domestic violence from a policy and practice perspective includes: Part 1 -Women's experiences of violence from known men in the home; Part 2 - Children's experiences of violence in the home; Part 3 - Women who fight back: experiences and outcomes; Part 4 - Influencing state policies on violence against women from known men; Part 5 - Partnership approaches by statutory and voluntary agencies; Part 6 - Decreasing the violence of men. Appendix 1: Families without fear: Women's Aid agenda for action on domestic violence; Appendix 2: The Duluth domestic abuse intervention project power and control wheel.