Freeing Tammy - Women, Drugs, and Incarceration

Informationen zum Autor Jody Raphael is Senior Research Fellow! Schiller DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center! DePaul University College of Law. Freeing Tammy is the final volume of Raphael's trilogy about women! poverty! and violence in contemporary Chicago that includes Saving Bernice: Battered Women! Welfare! and Poverty (NUP! 2000) and Listening to Olivia: Violence! Poverty! and Prostitution (NUP! 2004). Klappentext She uses Tammy's own words to demonstrate how childhood sexual assault and violence can make women poor and how dysfunctional coping strategies keep them poor. Tammy's story is a reminder that violence against women and girls economically impoverishes them by trapping them in addictions leading to crime and other self-destructive activities.

Info autore

JODY RAPHAEL is Senior Research Fellow, Schiller, DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center, DePaul University College of Law. Freeing Tammy is the final volume of Raphael's trilogy about women, poverty, and violence in contemporary Chicago that includes Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty (NUP, 2000) and Listening to Olivia: Violence, Poverty, and Prostitution (NUP, 2004).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jody Raphael
• Editore: University pr of new england
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2007
• EAN: 9781555536732
• ISBN: 978-1-55553-673-2
• Pagine: 219
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Northeastern Series on Gender,; Northeastern Series on Gender,; New England Gender, Crime & La
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Analisi delle strutture sociali