Women at Risk : Domestic Violence and Women′s Health.

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 problems presented by battered women arise because male strategies of coercion, isolation and control converge with discriminatory structur.

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