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Author | : Sonja Plesset |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2006-10-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780804767866 |
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Residents of Parma, Italy pride themselves on their sophistication and connection to European modernity. But despite a reputation for civility, intimate partner violence continues to take place, largely hidden from public view. Offering a detailed ethnography of two women's shelters—one leftist, the other Catholic—this book provides the political, cultural, and legal contexts of competing explanations for intimate partner violence. Some contend that violence against women reflects the cultural and historical gender inequalities embedded in Italian society, including "old-fashioned" or "traditional" understandings of masculinity. Others argue that it stems from confusion and ambivalence over "new" or "modern" forms of gender relations. While the first explanation places the blame on tradition and the second cites the transition to modernity, both emphasize societal understandings of gender and point to collective, rather than individual, responsibility. Through an intimate portrayal of everyday life, Sheltering Women reveals how violence against women can be studied as one part of a continuum of locally relevant understandings of gender relations and gender change.
Author | : Donileen R. Loseke |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1992-02-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1438411294 |
Download The Battered Woman and Shelters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Arguing that we commonly understand "wife abuse" and the "battered woman" in terms of standardized images of problems and people, the author explores how these images inform and shape social services for women who have been assaulted. Using ethnographic data of shelter work from the perspective of workers, she shows how these standardized images affect organizational structure and how front-line workers make sense of their interventions into clients' lives.
Author | : Jean Calterone Williams |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2016-10-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1607326159 |
Download A Roof Over My Head, Second Edition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Based upon extensive ethnographic data, “A Roof Over My Head” examines the lives of homeless women who cope with domestic violence, low-income housing shortages, and poverty. The author draws upon interviews with homeless women, interviews with housed people, and, finally, evaluations of shelter services, philosophies, and policies to get at the causes and social constructions of homelessness. “A Roof Over My Head” is a groundbreaking study that unveils the centrality of abuse and poverty in homeless women’s lives and outlines ways in which societal responses can and should be more effective. The second edition explores recent attempts to integrate homeless and battered women’s shelters and recent research on domestic violence as a cause of homelessness. It contains a new introduction that analyzes the most recent homeless policy developments and paints a picture of the homeless population today. With updated statistics and policy information throughout, the second edition of “A Roof Over My Head” illustrates why ending homelessness in the United States continues to present a thorny and complex challenge.
Author | : Margo Goodhand |
Publisher | : Fernwood Publishing |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2017-09-18T00:00:00Z |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1773630008 |
Download Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the supposedly enlightened ’60s and ’70s, violence against women was widespread. It wasn’t talked about, and women had few, if any, options to escape their abusers. Yet in 1973 — with no statistics, no money and little public support — five disparate groups of Canadian women quietly opened Canada’s first battered women’s shelters. Today, there are well over 600. In Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists, journalist Margo Goodhand tracks down the “rogue feminists” whose work forged an underground railway for women and children, weaving their stories into an unforgettable — and until now untold — history. As they lobbied for funding, scrounged for furniture and fended off outraged husbands, these women marked a defining moment in Canadian history, triggering monumental changes in government, schools, courts and law enforcement. But was it enough to stop the cycle of violence? Forty years later, these pioneers describe how and why Canada has lost its ground in the battle for women’s rights.
Author | : Christine McDonnell |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2022-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 153621129X |
Download Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie's Place, the Nation's First Shelter for Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Relates the story of social activist Kip Tiernan and her efforts to open Rosie's Place, the nation's first homeless shelter for women, in Boston.
Author | : Lori A. Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2016-05-13 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1317160320 |
Download Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women's Shelters and Hospitals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this book, Lori Brown examines the relationship between space, defined physically, legally and legislatively, and how these factors directly impact the spaces of abortion. It analyzes how various political entities shape the physical landscapes of inclusion and exclusion to reproductive healthcare access, and questions what architecture's responsibilities are in respect to this spatial conflict. Employing writing, drawing and mapping methodologies, this interdisciplinary project explores restrictions and legislatures which directly influence abortion policy in the US, Mexico and Canada. It questions how these legal rulings produce spatial complexities and why architecture isn't more culturally and spatially engaged with these spaces. In Mexico, where abortion is fully legal only in Mexico City during the first trimester, women must travel vast distances and undergo extreme conditions in order to access the procedure. Conservative state governments continue to make abortion a severely punishable crime. In Canada, there are nowhere near the cultural and religious stigmas to abortion as in the US and Mexico. Completely legal and without restrictions, Canada offers an important contrast to the ongoing abortion issues within the US and Mexico. Researching the spatial implications of such a politicized space, this book expands beyond a study of abortion clinic and includes other spaces such as women's shelters and hospitals that require multiple levels of secured spaces in order to discuss the spatial ramifications of access and security within spaces that are highly personal, private, and sometimes secret or even hidden. In questioning what architecture's responsibility is in these spatial conflicts, the book looks at how what architecture 'does' can be used to reconsider the spaces and security around such contested places, and ultimately suggests what design's potential impact might be. In doing so, it shows how architecture's role might be redefined within social and spatial practices.
Author | : Rachel Paul |
Publisher | : Nordic Council of Ministers |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Women immigrants |
ISBN | : 9789289301558 |
Download Shelters for Battered Women and the Needs of Immigrant Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Fullstendig tit.: Shelters for battered women and the needs of immigrant women. 109 s., hf. (TemaNord 1998:507)
Author | : Albert R. Roberts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Donileen R. Loseke |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780791408315 |
Download The Battered Woman and Shelters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores how standardized images of problems and people inform and shape social services for women who have been assaulted.
Author | : Erin Gunti |
Publisher | : Barefoot Books |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2019-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1782858652 |
Download A Place to Stay Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This simple, touching picture book shows readers a women’s shelter through the eyes of a young girl, who with her mother’s help, uses her imagination to overcome her anxiety and adjust. Includes factual endnotes detailing various reasons people experience homelessness and the resources available to help.