The Battered Woman and Shelters: The Social Construction of Wife Abuse (SUNY Series in Deviance and Social Control)
Book Details
Author(s)Donileen R. Loseke
PublisherState University of New York Press
ISBN / ASIN0791408329
ISBN-139780791408322
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank2,801,207
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Using ethnographic data of shelters for battered women, from the perspective of the workers, shows how standardized images of abuse social services, and the workers' interpretation of their intervention into clients' lives.



