Hard knocks domestic violence and the psychology of storytelling
This book draws on interviews carried out over a period of eight years, as well as novels, films, and domestic violence literature, to explain the role of storytelling in the history of the battered women's movement. The author shows how cultural contexts shape how stories about domestic abuse...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Routledge
2010.
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Edición: | 1st ed |
Colección: | Women and Psychology
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798163606719 |
Sumario: | This book draws on interviews carried out over a period of eight years, as well as novels, films, and domestic violence literature, to explain the role of storytelling in the history of the battered women's movement. The author shows how cultural contexts shape how stories about domestic abuse get told, and offers critical tools for bringing psychology into discussions of group dynamics in the domestic violence field. The book enlists psychoanalytic-feminist theory to analyse storytelling practices and to re-visit four areas of tension in the movement where signs of battle fat |
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Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781135157333 9781135157340 9781282639751 9786612639753 9780203857465 |