Sex, Shame, and Violence: A Revolutionary Practice of Public Storytelling in Poor Communities

by Kathleen Ann Cash

Book Overview

Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2017 For more than three decades, Kathleen Cash has lived and worked with impoverished people, learning about their lives. Listening to them talk about their feelings of shame, Cash heard how people suffered from being unable to change what was happening to them--HIV infection, sexual and domestic violence, violence toward children, and environmental degradation. She saw that many interventions lacked emotional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826520510
• ISBN13: 9780826520517
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.9"