Women at risk : domestic violence and women's health /
Evan Stark, Anne Flitcraft.
- xxi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Medicine and Patriarchal Violence -- Imagining Woman Battering: Social Knowledge, Social Therapy, and Patriarchal Benevolence -- Women and Children at Risk: A Feminist Perspective on Child Abuse -- Killing the Beast Within: Woman Battering and Female Suicidality -- Preventing Gendered Homicide -- Personal Power and Institutional Victimization: Treating the Dual Trauma of Woman Battering -- Clinical Violence Intervention: Lessons From Battered Women -- Discharge Planning With Battered Women -- Physicians and Domestic Violence: Challenges for Prevention -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- About the Authors. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
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Wife abuse--United States Family violence--United States Abused wives--Medical care--United States Abused women--Medical care--United States Patriarchy--United States