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10%OFFAysan Sev'Er - Fleeing the House of Horrors: Women Who Have Left Abusive Partners - 9780802085214 - V9780802085214
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Fleeing the House of Horrors: Women Who Have Left Abusive Partners

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Description for Fleeing the House of Horrors: Women Who Have Left Abusive Partners paperback. Thirty-nine women and their strategies of survival are the central focus of this newest study on women who have left abusive situations. An indispensable new look and new hope to the issue of violence against women. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JFFE3; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 395.

Thirty-nine women and their strategies of survival are the central focus of Aysan Sev'er's newest study on women who have left abusive situations. Through a mainly feminist orientation, Sev'er analyzes abuse, its many definitions, and existing theories surrounding violence against women, and incorporates an extensive literature review of Canadian and American sources that investigates feminist, non-feminist, and social-psychological theories of abuse. She then proceeds to relate the intimate stories of women who survived.

These interviews, from women outside institutional settings, candidly reveal the women's strengths and weaknesses. Some successful, some eventually destructive, the detailed stories allow Sev'er to analyse ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802085214
SKU
V9780802085214
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Ref
99-1

About Aysan Sev'Er
Aysan Sev'er is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto.

Reviews for Fleeing the House of Horrors: Women Who Have Left Abusive Partners
'This [book] will have a significant contribution to the research on intimate violence experienced by women … Her analysis is heart wrenching yet honest, brutal yet vital to our understanding of those women … This work is long overdue.'
Cheryl Gosselin, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Bishop's University

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