Who Owns Domestic Abuse?: The Local Politics of a Social Problem

by Ruth M. Mann

Book Overview

With the knowledge and sensitivity of a teacher and counsellor, Ruth M. Mann details a community effort to establish a shelter for abused women in a small Ontario municipality. While other literature presents the ostensibly cohesive views of particular interest groups on the issue of domestic violence, Mann exposes the conflicts that actually occur, and the ways these conflicts fuel unintended outcomes. In Who Owns Domestic Abuse? The Local Politics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080208091X
• ISBN13: 9780802080912
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"