Research Catalog

Title

Battered women as survivors / Lee Ann Hoff.

Author

Hoff, Lee Ann

Publication

• London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.
• ©1990

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Details

Description

xii, 289 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"This title documents the results of an urban (USA) field study of battered women and their social network members. It analyses woman-abuse in a life history perspective, and through values and network analysis reveals the relationship between personal crisis and traditional attitudes towards women, marriage, the family, and violence." -- Back cover.

Subject

• Abused women > United States > Psychology > Case studies
• Battered Women > psychology
• Violence envers les femmes > États-Unis > Cas, Études de
• Femmes victimes de violence > États-Unis > Études de cas
• Femmes victimes de violence > États-Unis > Psychologie > Études de cas
• Abused women > Psychology
• Gewalt
• Frau
• Vrouwenmishandeling
• Wife abuse > United States > Case studies
• Abused wives > United States > Case studies
• United States
• United States Battered women

Genre/Form

• Case Reports
• Case studies.
• Case studies
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Reconciling the personal and political through collaborative research -- Battered women: what life experience reveals -- Women in violent relationships: why they stayed -- From victim to survivor: how they left -- Social network members' responses to battered women -- The women's interaction with formal network members -- Social network members' values -- The shelter experience -- Rites of passage to a life without violence -- After shelter: poor and homeless women and children -- The children and work of battered women -- Summary and conclusions.

ISBN

• 0415043956
• 9780415043953
• 0415043948
• 9780415043946

LCCN

89070148

OCLC

• ocm20825128
• 20825128
• SCSB-1895509

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library