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Author:   Lee Ann Hoff
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781138673625

ISBN 10:   1138673625
Pages:   289
Publication Date:   27 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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List of figures and tables; Preface; Part I: Battered women: private struggles against a public problem; 1. Reconciling the personal and political through collaborative research 2. Battered women: what life experience reveals 3. Women in violent relationships: why they stayed 4. From victim to survivor: how they left; Part II: Battered women and their social networks; 5. Social network members’ responses to battered women 6. The women’s interaction with formal network members 7. Social network members’ values; Part III: Social life without violence: struggles and visions; 8. The shelter experience 9. Rites of passage to a life without violence 10. After shelter: poor and homeless women and children 11. The children and work of battered women; Part IV: Conclusions, implications, follow up; 12 Summary and conclusions; Epilogue: Five years later; Appendix: Theoretical and methodological Issues; Notes; References; Name index; Subject index.

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