No more secrets [[electronic resource] ] : violence in lesbian relationships / / Janice L. Ristock
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| Autore: |
Ristock Janice L (Janice Lynn)
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| Titolo: |
No more secrets [[electronic resource] ] : violence in lesbian relationships / / Janice L. Ristock
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.48/96643 |
| Soggetto topico: | Lesbian partner abuse |
| Abused lesbians | |
| Abusive lesbian partners | |
| Lesbian couples | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-228) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; NO MORE SECRETS: violence in lesbian relationships; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE: Bearing Witness; ONE The Emergence of Lesbian Partner Abuse: Creating a New Category; TWO Troubling Tales: Telling Stories, Exposing Language, Raising Questions; A MATERiAL TALE: telling stories; THREE What the Body Remembers: Lesbians' Experiences of Relationship Violence; FOUR An Innocence Lost: Responses to Violence; A DISCURSIVE TALE: exposing language; FIVE What's Written on the Body; SIX The Politics of Responding to Violence in Lesbian Relationships; A REFLEXIVE TALE: raising questions |
| SEVEN Looking ForwardNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Violence is a male biological trait. When women fight, no one gets seriously hurt. Lesbians don't abuse their spouses. The truth revealed in Janice Ristock's groundbreaking book is that lesbian relationships sometimes do turn violent. Based on interviews with more than one hundred lesbians who have suffered abuse and seventy-five case workers, No More Secrets is the first in-depth account of this startling phenomenon. Although one in four gay and lesbian couples are affected by domestic violence, the problem has remained hidden for several reasons. By giving voice to the victims, Ristock he |
| Titolo autorizzato: | No more secrets |
| ISBN: | 1-135-95635-9 |
| 1-878067-00-1 | |
| 0-203-80083-4 | |
| 0-203-80079-6 | |
| 1-280-07197-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910170983403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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