Working With Violence

Informationen zum Autor Edited By Carol Lupton and Terry Gillespie Klappentext This timely text examines the experience of feminists working with the effects of men's violence in a range of key areas: with rape survivors! with battered wives! with women whose children have been sexually abused! with prostitutes and with male abusers. Central policy changes and a multi-faceted political backlash have created new pressures for those committed to feminist practice. In each key area! the book explores the nature and impact of these changes for autonomous women's groups and for feminists working in! or with! a variety of social! medical or criminal justice agencies. Zusammenfassung This timely text examines the experience of feminists working with the effects of men's violence in a range of key areas: with rape survivors! with battered wives! with women whose children have been sexually abused! with prostitutes and with male abusers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; J.Hanmer.- Introduction Under Pressure: Rape Crises Centres! Multi-Agency Work and Strategies for Survival; T.Gillespie.- Professionalising the Response to Rape; M.Foley.- The British Refuge Movement; The Survival of an Ideal?;C.Lupton.- Asian Women and Violence in the Home; K.Bhatti-Sinclair.- Social Work and Mothers whose Children have been Sexually Abused; C.Bernard.- Prostitution and the State: Towards a Feminist Practice; M.O'Neill.- Working with Men who Abuse Women and Children; S.Perrott.- Violence Against Social Workers; M.Hester.- Violent Women; J.Orme Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Carol Gillespie Lupton, LUPTON CAROL GILLESPIE TERRY
• Mitarbeit: Terry Gillespie (Herausgeber), Carol Lupton (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Red Globe Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 03.05.1994
• EAN: 9780333567432
• ISBN: 978-0-333-56743-2
• Seiten: 240
• Serien: Practical Social Work Series; Practical Social Work; Practical Social Work
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Sozialpädagogik, Soziale Arbeit; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung