In Search of a Safe Place: Abused Women and Culturally Sensitive Services

by Vijay Agnew

Marginalized in the larger society and the mainstream women's movement, immigrant women are also outsiders in women's shelters, where racially sensitive and linguistically appropriate counselling is generally unavailable. In this book, Vijay Agnew documents the struggles of Canadian women's centres to provide better services to victims of wife abuse from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. The study looks at every aspect of community-based women's organizations,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802081142
• ISBN13: 9780802081148
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher