Janice Haaken

Hard Knocks

Domestic Violence and the Psychology of Storytelling

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780415563420
• ISBN-10: 0415563429
• Artikelnr.: 29740617

Autorenporträt

Janice Haaken is a Professor of Psychology at Portland State University. She is also a clinical and community psychologist, documentary filmmaker and social justice activist. An interdisciplinary scholar, Haaken has published extensively in the areas of psychoanalysis and feminism, gender and the history of psychiatric diagnosis, group responses to violence and trauma, and the psychology of storytelling.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Hard Ground: From Solitary Suffering to Sisterhood. 2.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Feminist Psychology and the Politics of
Violence. 3. Damsels in Distress: Popular Culture and Stories of Domestic
Abuse. 4. Going Underground: Feminism and Shelter Practices. 5. Between the
Devil and the Deep: Intervening with Batterers. 6. Running on Empty: Women,
Children, and Strategies of Survival. 7. Conclusions: Beyond Survival.