Research Catalog

Title

Cruel but not unusual : violence in Canadian families / Ramona Alaggia and Cathy Vine, editors.

Publication

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Vine, Cathy, 1958-
• Alaggia, Ramona, 1957-

Description

xvi, 585 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Violence in families and intimate relationships affects a significant proportion of the population--from very young children to the elderly--with far-reaching and often devastating consequences. Cruel but Not Unusual draws on the expertise of scholars and practitioners to present readers with the latest research and thinking about the history, theory, and impact of violence throughout the life course and across diverse groups and communities. For this new edition, chapters have been revised to reflect developments in research, practice and legislation. New chapters offer additional perspectives and topics including the interrelationship of trauma and resilience, putting gender back into the family violence equation, and re-examining violence against women by bringing in voices from the margins. While advancing new research and theoretical developments, these additions echo the book's central goal of engaging readers in a collective effort to use knowledge to end violence. Ramona Alaggia is an associate professor of social work and the Factor-Inwentash Chair in Children's Mental Health at the University of Toronto. Cathy Vine engages in research, writing, and action projects to advance the well-being and rights of children and youth. Publisher's note.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Family violence > Canada
• Women > Violence against > Canada
• Children and violence > Canada
• Abused older people > Canada
• Personnes âgees maltraitees > Canada
• Enfants et violence > Canada
• Violence envers les femmes > Canada
• Violence familiale > Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword / Margaret Norrie McCain -- Introduction / Ramona Alaggia and Cathy Vine -- Voices of women from the margins: re-examining violence against women / Deborah Sinclair -- Family violence or woman abuse? putting gender back into the Canadian research equation / Molly Dragiewicz -- Is this violence? Is this sexual violence? recognizing and defining violence through dialogue with French-speaking women / Ina Motoi -- Child corporal punishment: violence, law, and rights / Anne McGillivray and Joan E. Durrant -- Violence, trauma, and resilience / Michael Ungar and Bruce D. Perry -- Systemic oppression, violence, and healing in Aboriginal families and communities / Cyndy Baskin -- Violence, protection, and empowerment in the lives of children and adults with disabilities / Richard Sobsey and Sonia A. Sobon -- Dynamics of partner abuse in sexual and gender minority communities / J. Roy Gillis and Shaindl Diamond --^
• Domestic violence and child abuse: issues for immigrant and refugee families / Ramona Alaggia and Sarah Maiter -- Children abused, neglected, and living with violence: an overview / Cathy Vine, Nico Trocmé, Bruce MacLaurin, and Barbara Fallon -- Children's exposure to domestic violence: integrating policy, research, and practice to address children's mental health / Angélique Jenney and Ramona Alaggia -- Whose failure to protect: child welfare interventions when men beat mothers / Susan Strega -- Rendering children invisible: the forces at play during separation and divorce in the context of family violence / Rachel Birnbaum -- Violence against women: a structural perspective / Colleen Lundy -- Identifying, assessing, and treating men who abuse and women abused by intimate partners / Leslie M. Tutty -- Elder abuse and neglect in Canada: an overview / Lynn McDonald, Julie Dergal, and April Collins --^
• Older people as subjects, not objects: reconsidering theory and practice in situations of elder abuse / Joan Harbison, Pam McKinley and Donna Pettipas -- Conclusion: building the future / Ramona Alaggia and Cathy Vine.

ISBN

• 9781554588275
• 1554588278

OCLC

• 805879511
• SCSB-12843635

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library