Moral Wages: The Emotional Dilemmas of Victim Advocacy and Counseling

by Kenneth H. Kolb

Book Overview

Moral Wages offers the reader a vivid depiction of what it is like to work inside an agency that assists victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Based on over a year of fieldwork by a man in a setting many presume to be hostile to men, this ethnographic account is unlike most research on the topic of violence against women. Instead of focusing on the victims or perpetrators of abuse, Moral Wages focuses exclusively on the service...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520282728
• ISBN13: 9780520282728
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"