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Domestic partner abuse / L. Kevin Hamberger, Claire Renzetti, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Family violence--United States.
- Family violence.
- Abusive men--Family relationships--United States.
- Abusive men.
- Abusive women--Family relationships--United States.
- Abusive women.
- Gay couples--United States--Psychology.
- Gay couples.
- Lesbian couples--United States--Psychology.
- Lesbian couples.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer Pub. Co., c1996.
- Summary:
- This volume makes a signal contribution to understanding and treating couples' abuse. The editors and contributors expand the models of abusive relationships to include the special concerns of gay and lesbian couples, mutually violent partners, abusive women, and others. Based on a special issue of the respected journal Violence and Victims , the book shatters myths surrounding domestic violence and sheds new light on a complex social problem. This volume will be a resource for counselors, therapists, and social workers concerned with domestic violence, as well as for students and educators in
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Expanding Paradigms for Understanding and Intervening into Partner Violence; 1 Gay and Bisexual Male Domestic Violence Victimization: Challenges to Feminist Theory and Responses to Violence; 2 Are Bi-Directionally Violent Couples Mutually Victimized? A Gender-Sensitive Comparison; 3 Counseling Heterosexual Women Arrested for Domestic Violence: Implications for Theory and Practice; 4 Lesbian Battering: The Relationship Between Personality and the Perpetration of Violence; 5 Head-Injured Males: A Population at Risk for Relationship Aggression?
- 6 Patriarchy and Wife Assault: The Ecological Fallacy7 Psychopharmacological Treatment of Aggressive Behavior: Implications for Domestically Violent Men; Commentaries; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-81870-4
- 9786611818708
- 0-8261-9092-8
- OCLC:
- 437109787
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