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Unclenching Our Fists: Abusive Men on the Journey to Nonviolence
Sara Elinoff Acker
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Description for Unclenching Our Fists: Abusive Men on the Journey to Nonviolence
Hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE3; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
This book features eleven first-person stories of men from diverse class and racial backgrounds who have made a long-term commitment to end their physical and emotional abuse and controlling behaviours. These men speak frankly about the abuse they inflicted on their families, what it took to get them to face themselves, and how they feel about the damage they have caused. All participated in violence intervention programs, some for as long as ten years. To put a face on violence and to encourage activism for reform, most of the eleven have allowed their photos and real names to be used ... Read more
This book features eleven first-person stories of men from diverse class and racial backgrounds who have made a long-term commitment to end their physical and emotional abuse and controlling behaviours. These men speak frankly about the abuse they inflicted on their families, what it took to get them to face themselves, and how they feel about the damage they have caused. All participated in violence intervention programs, some for as long as ten years. To put a face on violence and to encourage activism for reform, most of the eleven have allowed their photos and real names to be used ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826519412
SKU
V9780826519412
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Ref
99-3
About Sara Elinoff Acker
Sara Elinoff Acker has been an activist in the battered women's movement since 1985. She worked in shelter programs in Northern Vermont, USA and Western Massachusetts, USA and in 1992 started the partner contact programme at Men Overcoming Violence (MOVE) in Amherst. Acker became a certified batterer intervention group leader in 1996 and ran groups for abusive men for over ... Read more
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