The Battered Woman and Shelters: The Social Construction of Wife Abuse

By Donileen R. Loseke

Book Overview

Explores how standardized images of problems and people inform and shape social services for women who have been assaulted.

Arguing that we commonly understand "wife abuse" and the "battered woman" in terms of standardized images of problems and people, the author explores how these images inform and shape social services for women who have been assaulted. Using ethnographic data of shelter work from the perspective of workers, she shows how these standardized images affect organizational structure and how front-line workers make sense of their interventions into clients' lives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791408329
• ISBN13: 9780791408322
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher