04132nam 2200613 a 450 991048019290332120170821181659.01-4522-4715-31-322-28346-X1-4833-4537-8(CKB)2560000000250823(EBL)1920454(OCoLC)654272159(MiAaPQ)EBC1920454(StDuBDS)EDZ0000160002(EXLCZ)99256000000025082320130912d1996 fy| 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierWomen at risk[electronic resource] domestic violence and women's health /Evan Stark, Anne FlitcraftThousand Oaks, Calif. SAGEc19961 online resource (289 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-5063-2095-3 0-8039-7041-2 Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237) and indexes.""Cover ""; ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Part I - Theoretical Perspectives ""; ""Chapter 1 - Medicine and Patriarchal Violence ""; ""Chapter 2 - Imagining Woman Battering: Social Knowledge, Social Therapy, and Patriarchal Benevolence ""; ""Part II - Health Consequences """"Chapter 3 - Women and Children at Risk: A Feminist Perspective on Child Abuse """"Chapter 4 - Killing the Beast Within: Woman Battering and Female Suicidality""; ""Chapter 5 - Preventing Gendered Homicide ""; ""Part III - Clinical Interventions """"Chapter 6 - Personal Power and Institutional Victimization: Treating the Dual Trauma of Woman Battering """"Chapter 7 - Clinical Violence Intervention: Lessons from Battered Women""; ""Chapter 8 - Discharge Planning With Battered Women ""; ""Chapter 9 - Physicians and Domestic Violence: Challenges for Prevention ""; ""References """"Name Index """"Subject Index ""; ""About the Authors ""Battering by men is the most significant cause of injury to women in our society. It is also a major cause of child abuse, murder, substance abuse and female suicide attempts. This volume, the result of 15 years of research conducted by the authors - a social worker and physician respectively - explores the theoretical perspectives of this dramatic expression of male domination, together with health consequences for women and clinical interventions. The authors found that the traditional resources women turn to for help reinforce male domination: the medical, psychiatric and behavioural proWife abuseUnited StatesFamily violenceUnited StatesAbused wivesMedical careUnited StatesAbused womenMedical careUnited StatesPatriarchyUnited StatesElectronic books.Wife abuseFamily violenceAbused wivesMedical careAbused womenMedical carePatriarchy362.82920973Stark Evan966092Flitcraft Anne1948-1043665StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910480192903321Women at risk2468794UNINA