Leaving Abusive Partners: From the Scars of Survival to the Wisdom for Change

by Catherine Kirkwood

Book Overview

This moving book reshapes our understanding of the nature of woman abuse and makes a major contribution to a key issue for feminist campaigning and theory. The past 25 years of research on battered′ women has focused on the psychological, sociological and political conditions which contribute to violence, and on women′s reasons for staying with violent and abusive partners. The author goes beyond the discourse of victims′ and ...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803986866
• ISBN13: 9780803986862
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"