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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458676503321

Autore

Haaken Janice <1947-, >

Titolo

Hard knocks : domestic violence and the psychology of storytelling / / Janice Haaken

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-15734-0

1-282-63975-7

9786612639753

0-203-85746-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Women and Psychology

Disciplina

362.82/92019

Soggetti

Abused women - Services for - Citizen participation

Family violence - Prevention - Citizen participation

Storytelling - Psychological aspects

Feminism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1: DILEMMAS OF THEORY; 1 HARD GROUND: FROM SOLITARY SUFFERING TO SISTERHOOD; 2 BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: FEMINIST PSYCHOLOGY AND THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE; 3 DAMSELS IN DISTRESS: POPULAR CULTURE AND STORIES OF DOMESTIC ABUSE; PART 2: DILEMMAS OF PRACTICE; 4 GOING UNDERGROUND: FEMINISM AND SHELTER PRACTICES; 5 BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP: INTERVENING WITH BATTERERS; 6 RUNNING ON EMPTY: WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND STRATEGIES OF SURVIVAL; CONCLUSIONS: BEYOND SURVIVAL; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book draws on interviews carried out over a period of eight years, as well as novels, films, and domestic violence literature, to explain the role of storytelling in the history of the battered women's movement. The author shows how cultural contexts shape how stories about domestic abuse get told, and offers critical tools for bringing psychology into discussions of group dynamics in the domestic



violence field. The book enlists psychoanalytic-feminist theory to analyse storytelling practices and to re-visit four areas of tension in the movement where signs of battle fat