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No Place to Go : Local Histories of the Battered Women's Shelter Movement.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (183 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774855662
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No Place to GoDDC classification:
  • 362.82/92830971
LOC classification:
  • HV1448.C2 -- J35 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Assisting Our Own: Beendigen, 1972-89 -- 2 Maybe It Wasn't the Best Way to Do It, but It Got Done: Faye Peterson Transition House, 1972-85 -- 3 We're Here to Help: Kenora Women's Crisis Intervention Project, 1975-85 -- 4 It's a Band-Aid Service, and It's a Damn Needed One: The Nelson Safe Home Program, 1973-89 -- 5 It Was Never about the Money: Crossroads for Women/Carrefour pour femmes, 1979-87 -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Interviews -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: The first history of the battered women's shelter movement in Canada, this book traces the development of transition houses and services for abused women and the campaign that made wife battering a political issue.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Assisting Our Own: Beendigen, 1972-89 -- 2 Maybe It Wasn't the Best Way to Do It, but It Got Done: Faye Peterson Transition House, 1972-85 -- 3 We're Here to Help: Kenora Women's Crisis Intervention Project, 1975-85 -- 4 It's a Band-Aid Service, and It's a Damn Needed One: The Nelson Safe Home Program, 1973-89 -- 5 It Was Never about the Money: Crossroads for Women/Carrefour pour femmes, 1979-87 -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Interviews -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

The first history of the battered women's shelter movement in Canada, this book traces the development of transition houses and services for abused women and the campaign that made wife battering a political issue.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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