Broken - Womens Stories of Intimate and Institutional Harm and Repair

In the United States, the second-wave feminist fight to achieve legal and societal recognition of men's violence against women leaned heavily on the victim-offender binary, which has since become inscribed in funding schemes, legal remedies, and intervention approaches. In Broken, scholar-practitioner Lisa Young Larance draws on her extensive in-depth qualitative inquiry and practice experience with women who have participated in antiviolence intervention to explain how this binary erases the trauma histories of those who both survive and cause harm. Calling for a more holistic conception of interpersonal violence, Broken illuminates the connections across race, class, and sexual orientation that facilitate women's healing and repair.

About the author

Lisa Young Larance is Assistant Professor of Social Work at Bryn Mawr College's Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. She cocreated the Vista program, one of the first antiviolence intervention programs in the United States for women who use force in intimate relationships.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Young Larance
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2024
• EAN: 9780520392335
• ISBN: 978-0-520-39233-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Gender and Justice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; USA, LAW / Family Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SELF-HELP / Abuse, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, LAW / Gender & the Law, Coping with personal problems, Feminism & feminist theory, Family Law, Gender & the law, United States of America, USA, Violence in society, domestic violence, Feminism and feminist theory, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Domestic abuse, Law and society, gender issues, Coping with / advice about abuse