Battered Woman and Shelters

The Social Construction of Wife Abuse

AvDonileen R. Loseke

Häftad, Engelska, 1992

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Beskrivning

Explores how standardized images of problems and people inform and shape social services for women who have been assaulted.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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1992-02-24
Mått:139 x 214 x 15 mm
Vikt:281 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Deviance and Social Control
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791408322

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Mer om författaren

Donileen R. Loseke is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at Skidmore College.

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"The book brings a fresh and needed perspective to an issue that is too often treated in the simplistic fashion of a television movie. There are no persons wearing 'white' and 'black' hats in this book. Rather, the book focuses on the practical dilemmas and circumstances faced by shelter workers in fulfilling their professional obligations. Loseke offers us a way of seeing shelter work as it is. In doing so, she raises issues that some readers may find discomforting because they clash with their television movie visions of battered women and shelter workers. What Loseke offers is a vision of battered women and shelter workers as human beings and practical actors who use available cultural resources to understand and manage the troubles of everyday life. This is a thoughtful and sophisticated approach to an important social issue." — Gale Miller, Marquette University

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments IntroductionSOCIAL PROBLEMS WORK AND THE STUDY OF WIFE ABUSE 1. COLLECTIVE PREPRESENTATIONS The Collective Representation of Wife AbuseThe Collective Representation of the Battered WomanThe Collective Representation of SheltersSummary 2. SCHEMES OF INTERPRETATION AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE Social Problems and Moral StancesInterpretive Schemes and Practical ExperienceSummary 3. COLLECTIVE REPRESENTATIONS AND THE FORMAL ORGANIZATION OF SHELTER WORK Collective Representations and the Organization of South CoastCollective Representations, Administrators, and Workers at South CoastCollective Representations and Organizational Decision-MakingSummary 4. IDENTIFYING THE BATTERED WOMAN The Practicalities of Client SelectionThe Practicalities of IdentificationCategorizations and JustificationsCommonsense Interpretations, Categorizations, and JustificationsSummary 5. TRANSFORMING CLIENTS Interpretive Schemes, Organizational Structure, and Identity TransformationConstructing the Battered WomanSupporting the Battered WomanThe Activities of SupportSummary 6. MAKING SENSE OF SHELTER WORK Troubles and DisappointmentsMaking Sense of Interpersonal TroublesPractical Sensemaking and Failures to Neutralize TroublesMaking Sense of SuccessSummary 7. SOCIAL PROBLEMS WORK AND THE REPRODUCTION OF PUBLIC PROBLEMS AppendixDATA AND DATA COLLECTION AT SOUTH COAST Notes References Index