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Violence in the lives of black women : battered, black, and blue Carolyn M. West, editor

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Haworth Press c2002Description: 211 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0789019957
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.88 VIO
Summary: Written from a Black feminist perspective by therapists, researchers, activists, and survivors. Sheds new light on an understudied field. Provides a forum where personal testimony and academic research meet to show you how living at the intersection of many kinds of oppression shapes the lives of Black women. Includes case studies, in-depth discussions of activism and resistance, and suggestions for treatment and intervention.
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Book Book Vine library TRO 362.88 VIO Available A00665525B

"Violence in the lives of black women: battered, black, and blue has been co-published simultaneously as Women & therapy, volume 25, numbers 3/4 2002."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Written from a Black feminist perspective by therapists, researchers, activists, and survivors. Sheds new light on an understudied field. Provides a forum where personal testimony and academic research meet to show you how living at the intersection of many kinds of oppression shapes the lives of Black women. Includes case studies, in-depth discussions of activism and resistance, and suggestions for treatment and intervention.