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Business intent in relation to performance oriented wellbeing and work design and work life balance in the Indian coal mining... Business intent in relation to performance oriented wellbeing and work design and work life balance in the Indian coal mining sector (Paperback)
Singh Raghavendra
R1,810 R1,374 Discovery Miles 13 740 Save R436 (24%) Out of stock
Trauma-Organized Systems - Physical and Sexual Abuse in Families (Hardcover): Arnon Bentovim Trauma-Organized Systems - Physical and Sexual Abuse in Families (Hardcover)
Arnon Bentovim
R3,906 Discovery Miles 39 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is about the experience of individuals who have been abused or who have abused others, but it also traces the way an abusive experience can organize a family or professional system so that changes are difficult to achieve. The author has been in the forefront of the child abuse field for many years, and he discusses in this volume the way his thinking has changed to incorporate the ideas from the feminist movement and the constructionist family therapists. He looks at the way victimizing actions and the traumatic effects of abuse combine to create a trauma-organized system, which includes the individual, the family, the professional helpers, the community, and the cultural values. The author describes the characteristics of these systems and a diagnostic procedure to help the workers plan the treatment.

Working with Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (Hardcover): Elsa Jones Working with Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (Hardcover)
Elsa Jones
R3,901 Discovery Miles 39 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The author, working from the Family Institute in Cardiff, has been treating adult survivors of child sexual and physical abuse for several years, and she has clearly and frankly described her work in this book. She begins be describing the context for working with her clients; then describes the way she has welded systemic thinking and a feminist perspective into a theoretical model she uses to understand the problem and to guide her own work with the survivors. The descriptions of the therapeutic process are, at the same time, profound and simply conveyed. Her work is further clarified by the inclusion of twenty case examples. She shares her own dilemmas about working with adult survivors, and in this way the book offers the reader support for the emotional impact of this work as well as a theoretical framework and suggestions about therapeutic technique.

Violence and Abuse Issues - Cross-Cultural Perspectives for Health and Social Services (Hardcover): Lee Ann Hoff Violence and Abuse Issues - Cross-Cultural Perspectives for Health and Social Services (Hardcover)
Lee Ann Hoff
R4,509 Discovery Miles 45 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

After centuries of being considered a private matter in most societies, violence and its profound effect on the physical health, mental health, and social well-being of victims and their families, as well as on the assailants themselves, has started to take centre stage as a public issue of worldwide concern.

Health and social service providers are in pivotal positions to provide preventive and restorative services to those affected by violent and abusive behaviour. This comprehensive textbook presents theoretical background and practical strategies for doing so, providing a solid knowledge base for good practice in this area. It emphasizes the interdisciplinary aspects of violence and victim/survivor care and addresses violence over the lifespan, covering:

  • child sexual and physical abuse
  • sexual assault of adults
  • battering and emotional abuse of intimate partners
  • elder abuse
  • perpetrators of violence and abuse
  • violence in learning and work environments
  • vicarious trauma and self-care
  • interconnections between various forms of violence, including socially approved violence in the media and in war.

This text is an essential resource for qualified practitioners wanting to learn more about this area and for students starting out in health and social care. Each chapter includes case studies and thinking points, and suggestions for application in practice settings. A companion website provides materials for students and educators, enabling the inclusion of violence issues in an already busy curriculum.

Lee Ann Hoff is a nurse-anthropologist and crisis specialist. She has published widely and is the author of the award-winning textbook People in Crisis. She has extensive experience as an educator, consultant, clinician, and crisis service manager.

Understanding and Addressing Adult Sexual Attraction to Children - A Study of Paedophiles in Contemporary Society (Hardcover):... Understanding and Addressing Adult Sexual Attraction to Children - A Study of Paedophiles in Contemporary Society (Hardcover)
Sarah Goode
R4,065 Discovery Miles 40 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Paedophiles exist and we must develop ways of living with this fact whilst ensuring that children are kept safe. This ground-breaking book demystifies the field of adult sexual attraction to children, countering the emotionality surrounding the topic of paedophilia in the popular media by careful presentation of research data and interview material. Addressing how we can work together to reduce sexual offending in this population, this text bridges the gulf in understanding between those who want to protect children and those who feel sexual attraction to children ? and recognises that they are sometimes the same people.

Sarah D. Goode provides an overview of the topic by defining the term 'paedophile' and discussing how many adults there may be in the general population who find themselves sexually attracted to children. She looks at how the Internet has acted as an enabler, with an explosion of child pornography and 'pro-paedophile' websites. Drawing on data from a sample of fifty-six self-defined paedophiles living in the community, she explores themes including self-identity, the place of fantasy and the forms of support available to paedophiles. Her research highlights the scale of debate within the 'online paedophile community' about issues such as the morality of sexual contact with children and encouragement to maintain a law-abiding lifestyle. Throughout, she draws careful distinctions between sexual attraction to children and sexual contact with children. The book concludes with a valuable discussion on how adult sexual contact harms children and examples of a range of initiatives which work to protect children and prevent offending.

Suitable for all professionals who work with children or sexual offenders, this book gives clear guidance on what one needs to know and do to ensure children are kept safe. It will also be of interest to students studying child protection, paedophilia and child sexual abuse within other social science disciplines.

Moving On After Childhood Sexual Abuse - Understanding the Effects and Preparing for Therapy (Paperback, New): Jonathan Willows Moving On After Childhood Sexual Abuse - Understanding the Effects and Preparing for Therapy (Paperback, New)
Jonathan Willows
R814 Discovery Miles 8 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This self-help guide allows those who have experienced childhood sexual abuse to consider the impact that it has had on their adult lives from a new perspective, helping them to understand the effects, and prepare for therapy.

Based on known reactions to physical and emotional trauma, the book explains how a broad range of difficulties in adulthood can result from sexual abuse in childhood. The reader is invited to think about how psychological therapy can be particularly helpful in reducing these difficulties and promoting change. Ground rules for therapy are provided, as well as guidance on how to get the most from the therapy process.

Moving On After Childhood Sexual Abuse provides a clear explanation of the developmental effects of childhood sexual abuse as well as the role of psychological therapy. This book will therefore assist the reader in making informed decisions about seeking treatment and setting personal goals for therapy, as well as appreciating the demands involved in the process of change.

Unspeakable - A Life Beyond Sexual Morality (Hardcover): Rachel Hope Cleves Unspeakable - A Life Beyond Sexual Morality (Hardcover)
Rachel Hope Cleves
R864 Discovery Miles 8 640 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon. Changes in how Anglo-American culture has understood intergenerational sex can be seen with startling clarity in the life of British writer Norman Douglas (1868-1952), who was both a beloved and popular author, a friend of luminaries like Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, and D.H. Lawrence--as well as an unrepentant and uncloseted pederast. Rachel Hope Cleves's careful study opens a window onto the social history of intergenerational sex in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, revealing how charisma, celebrity, and contemporary standards protected Douglas from punishment--until they didn't. Unspeakable approaches Douglas as neither monster nor literary hero, but as a man who participated in an exploitative sexual subculture that was tolerated in ways we may find hard to understand. Using letters, diaries, memoirs, police records, novels, and photographs--including sources by the children Douglas encountered--Cleves identifies the cultural practices that structured pedophilic behaviors in England, Italy, and other places Douglas favored. The resulting book delineates just how approaches to adult-child sex have changed over time, even as it offers insight into how society can confront today's scandals, celebrity and otherwise.

Transgender Marxism (Paperback): Jules Joanne Gleeson, Elle O'Rourke Transgender Marxism (Paperback)
Jules Joanne Gleeson, Elle O'Rourke; Foreword by Jordy Rosenberg
R450 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R99 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory. Exploring trans lives and movements, the authors delve into the experience of surviving as transgender under capitalism. They explore the pressures, oppression and state persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, their tenuous positions in the workplace and the home, and give a powerful response to right-wing scaremongering against 'gender ideology'. Reflecting on the relations between gender and labour, these essays reveal the structure of antagonisms faced by gender non-conforming people within society. Looking at the history of transgender movements, Marxist interventions into developmental theory, psychoanalysis and workplace ethnography, the authors conclude that for trans liberation, capitalism must be abolished.

The Systematic Mistreatment of Children in the Foster Care System - Through the Cracks (Paperback): Lois Weinberg The Systematic Mistreatment of Children in the Foster Care System - Through the Cracks (Paperback)
Lois Weinberg
R2,060 Discovery Miles 20 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Systematic Mistreatment of Children in the Foster Care System tells the stories of 10 children in the foster care system from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds and the efforts by advocates to find them permanent places to live, appropriate schooling, and other essentials they need to survive. The children's case studies highlight the difficulties in placing and maintaining them in healthy living situations with supportive educational, mental health, and other services. The book shows how children fall-sometimes over and over again-through the "deep cracks" that exist within and between the various agencies of the multi-agency system of care that was designed to help them. Appropriate placement and services for children in foster care typically requires the coordination and collaboration of several agencies, including the juvenile court, child protective services (CPS), school districts, and departments of mental health (DMH). The Systematic Mistreatment of Children in the Foster Care System shows how these agencies frequently fail to meet their legal obligations to children in the system and what can be done to address these failures-and the outcomes they produce. The Systematic Mistreatment of Children in the Foster Care System includes: an introduction to the child protective services system the general route by which children in the United States are removed from their parents' custody because or abuse and neglect the major components of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the problems in getting foster children's educational needs met the difficulties in securing stable out-of-home placements strategies for stabilizing home placements problems in funding for out-of-home placements strategies for advocating the removal of children from inadequate out-of-home placements legislation and practices for bringing about needed policy changes and much more Equally valuable as a professional tool and as a classroom resource, The Systematic Mistreatment of Children in the Foster Care System includes introductions to specific issues presented in each chapter; case studies that illuminate the issues presented; subsections for each case study chapter entitled "Prevention," "Intervention," "Advocacy Considerations," and "What Had Gone Wrong;" boxed items highlighting practical strategies, laws, and other relevant information; and a conclusion and summary of each chapter.

My Father's Glass Eye (Paperback): Jeannie Vanasco My Father's Glass Eye (Paperback)
Jeannie Vanasco 1
R307 R239 Discovery Miles 2 390 Save R68 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

My Father's Glass Eye is Jeannie's struggle to honour her father, her larger-than-life hero, but also the man who named her after his daughter from a previous marriage, a daughter who died. After his funeral, Jeannie spends the next decade in escalating mania, in and out of hospitals - increasingly obsessed with the other Jeanne. Obsession turns to investigation as she plumbs her childhood awareness of her dead half-sibling and hunts for clues into the mysterious circumstances of her death. It becomes a puzzle she she must solve to better understand herself and her father. Jeannie pulls us into her unravelling with such intimacy that her insanity becomes palpable, even logical. A brilliant exploration of the human psyche, My Father's Glass Eye deepens our definitions of love, sanity, grief, and recovery.

Enjoy Me Among My Ruins (Paperback): Juniper Fitzgerald Enjoy Me Among My Ruins (Paperback)
Juniper Fitzgerald
R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Choosing to Heal - Using Reality Therapy in the Treatment of Sexually Abused Children (Paperback): Laura Ellsworth Choosing to Heal - Using Reality Therapy in the Treatment of Sexually Abused Children (Paperback)
Laura Ellsworth
R1,258 Discovery Miles 12 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The number of sexual abuse disclosures by children has been increasing at a steady rate. Therapists are faced with the dilemma of limited resources and training to help them best serve this vulnerable population.

Choosing to Heal breaks new ground as the first resource to use Reality Therapy and Choice Therapy in focusing on the treatment of sexually abused children. Mental health professionals are provided with numerous techniques and strategies to utilize during the treatment process.

Parents, caretakers, teachers and anyone helping children heal from sexual abuse can obtain an understanding of the process in simple and understandable language. Choosing to Heal is a must-have resource for anyone helping a child heal from sexual abuse.

Rape, Incest, Battery - Women Writing out the Pain (Paperback): Miriam K. Harris Rape, Incest, Battery - Women Writing out the Pain (Paperback)
Miriam K. Harris
R525 R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Save R75 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Rape, incest, and battery change a woman's life forever. Some women never rise above the pain, the rage, the humiliation, while others seem to transcend the violence and rebuild their lives. What distinguishes those who transcend the violation? Courage--the courage to face their past and, sometimes, to put it into words. In 1989 Miriam Harris was serving as project coordinator for the Battered Woman's Emergency Intervention Project at Dallas's Parkland Hospital. As part of her duties, she taught a journal-writing class at a women's shelter and found that the women she helped to express their pain, rage, and frustration underwent a catharsis of the soul, but, more importantly, understood the heroic enterprise of regaining self-power. "The writing cure," as she calls it, builds on the "talking cure" that originated with Sigmund Freud's famous patient, Anna O. According to Harris, a woman discovers a new identity by becoming the "subject who writes" rather than the victim who waits in silence. Knowing that the problem of violence against women is universal in our world, Harris put out a call to professional writers, women in shelters, and scholars in academe. She advertised in literary journals and newsletters, asking for autobiographical writings by women who survived any kind of violence and abuse. Rape, Incest, Battery resulted from her long process of collecting, selecting, and editing. Divided into seven sections, this anthology is arranged in the pattern a journey might take: "Silent Woman Speaks" redefines the events of the past; "Thoughts after Rape" explores the continuum of sexual violence in our culture; "Dark Pages" lights the dark of childhood, too often revealing abuse and incest; "Grinding Axes" calls attention to the price women pay for accepting society's definitions of gender; "Behind His Walls" explores imprisonment, both actual and metaphorical; "Regeneration" captures the moment of rebirth; and "She Said NO!" affirms female strength. A woman is raped every three minutes; a woman is beaten in her home every fifteen seconds; one of four women in emergency rooms is "battered." Over four million women are beaten annually by current and former male partners, and between two thousand and four thousand are murdered. But this book goes beyond the overwhelming magnitude of the problem to celebrate the images of heroic women fighting for their rights, risking their lives, rescuing their children from a violent family life, testifying, speaking out, and seeking justice when they are beaten, raped, or otherwise violated.

Victimology (Paperback, 9th edition): William G Doerner, Steven P Lab Victimology (Paperback, 9th edition)
William G Doerner, Steven P Lab
R2,565 Discovery Miles 25 650 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book covers the scope of crime victims' suffering in the U.S., offering a history of victims and the measurement of victimization, an explanation of the victim's role in the criminal justice process, and a recounting of the issues crime victims face as a result of crime and the criminal justice process. Doerner and Lab, both well-regarded scholars, write compellingly about how the current criminal's justice system can be transformed into a victim's justice system. Theory is woven together with the description of each topic, and specific examples illustrate each point. The book goes on to address the full impact of victimization, and a final section details specific types of victimization, ranging from violent crimes, including child and elder abuse, to property crime, to crime in the school and in the workplace. The authors explain how obstacles hinder the pursuit of justice, and provide significant policy and programming suggestions to render the system more victim-friendly. Appropriate for undergraduate as well as early graduate students in Victimology courses in Criminology, Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Justice Studies programs, this book offers rich pedagogical features and online student resources as well as test bank, PowerPoint lecture slides, and sample syllabus for instructors.

Interdisciplinary Feminist Perspectives on Crimes of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse (Hardcover): Kate Gleeson, Timothy Willem Jones Interdisciplinary Feminist Perspectives on Crimes of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse (Hardcover)
Kate Gleeson, Timothy Willem Jones
R3,901 Discovery Miles 39 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In recent years the sexual abuse of children in religious institutions has gripped the Western world, as churches, governments and civil society attempt to come to terms with the magnitude of widespread historical abuses. Questions continue to be asked about why it is that perpetrators were able to offend repeatedly and with impunity; what is it about institutions that facilitate or foster abuse; and why have survivors of abuse often been treated inadequately by diverse national and international justice and political systems throughout the last century? This volume makes a significant contribution to international understandings of the vexed and sensitive 'wicked problem' of child sexual abuse in religious institutions. The chapters in this volume are written from a range of feminist disciplinary responses, including law, criminology, anthropology and history. Together, they provide important historical context for the current social and political interest in clerical sex crimes. They examine political and legal avenues for redress for survivors of these crimes and critically examine the ways in which church cultures position clergy and clergy offenders in relation to victims. The chapters originally published in a special issue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal.

It's True, It's True, It's True (Paperback): Breach Theatre It's True, It's True, It's True (Paperback)
Breach Theatre
R317 Discovery Miles 3 170 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Winner of the Untapped Award 2018. Fringe First and Total Theatre Award-winning Breach (Tank, The Beanfield) restage the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Based on surviving court transcripts, this new play dramatises the seven-month trial that gripped Renaissance Rome, and asks how much has changed in the last four centuries. It's True, It's True, It's True blends myth, history and contemporary commentary to tell the the story of how a woman took revenge through her art to become one of the most successful painters of her generation.

Confronting Sexual Harassment - The Law and Politics of Everyday Life (Hardcover, New Ed): Anna-Maria Marshall Confronting Sexual Harassment - The Law and Politics of Everyday Life (Hardcover, New Ed)
Anna-Maria Marshall
R1,190 Discovery Miles 11 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Examining the relationship between law and social change in the context of employees' everyday problems with sexual harassment, this volume elaborates a framework for studying the role of law in everyday acts of resistance - what the author calls the legal consciousness of injustice. The framework situates the analysis in the context of a specific social problem and its related legal domain. It de-centres the law by accounting for the way that social movements, counter-movements, policy makers and powerful institutions frame the debate surrounding the social problem. Drawing on frame analysis developed in social movement studies, this aspect of the approach specifically incorporates other schema and shows how law supports both oppositional and dominant interpretations of experience. Following the stages of a dispute, the framework then examines the way that people use frames to make sense of their experiences.

Rape Work - Victims, Gender, and Emotions in Organization and Community Context (Hardcover): Patricia Yancey Martin Rape Work - Victims, Gender, and Emotions in Organization and Community Context (Hardcover)
Patricia Yancey Martin
R4,514 Discovery Miles 45 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Despite the proliferation of rape crisis centers and other improvements in the treatment of rape victims over the past 20 years, many victims still find themselves the victims of what has been called a "second rape" by doctors, lawyers, judges, police, and administrators that process them. This book takes a critical look at the organizations and officials that process rape victims to see how the structure of their respective organizations often prevent them from providing responsive care.

Public Rape - Representing Violation In Fiction And Film (Paperback, New): Tanya Horeck Public Rape - Representing Violation In Fiction And Film (Paperback, New)
Tanya Horeck
R1,170 Discovery Miles 11 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Second-wave feminism fought to end the blanket silence shrouding rape and bring it to public attention. Now feminist critics must confront a different issue. In Public Rape Tanya Horeck considers the public investment in images of rape and the figure of the raped woman. Introducing the idea of 'public rape', Horeck looks at how images of rape serve as cultural fantasies of sexual, racial and class difference. Looking at rape in real life as well as in literature and films such as The Accused and Boys Don't Cry, Horek reveals how representations of rape raise vital questions about the relationship between reality and fantasy, and between violence and spectacle

Creciendo Libre - Manual para Sobrevivientes de la Violencia Domestica (Paperback): Michael Hertica, Wendy Deaton, Christell... Creciendo Libre - Manual para Sobrevivientes de la Violencia Domestica (Paperback)
Michael Hertica, Wendy Deaton, Christell Quinche
R804 Discovery Miles 8 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Help your Spanish-speaking clients break the pattern of abuse! A workbook for your Spanish-speaking clients! Battered women often become so frightened, isolated, and self-doubting that they don't realize that they are being victimized. They may minimize the seriousness of the abuse and make excuses for the abuser. The checklists, questionnaires, and personal stories in Creciendo Libre can provide the shock of recognition they need to be able to say, This is wrong. It has to end. Combining psychological insight with practical safety information, Creciendo Libre helps the reader to understandand endthe vicious cycle of wooing, tension, violence, and remorse that characterizes all levels of domestic violence. It outlines a series of steps abused women can take to ensure their emotional and physical safety. Creciendo Libre offers both practical and psychological resources, including: lists of abusive behaviors from ridiculing family members to physical violence common rationalizations for abuse used by both victims and perpetrator detailed discussions of protection orders and other legal matters detailed preparations and safety precautions that may make leaving less dangerous advice on what to take with you when you leave guidelines for establishing safe relationships in the future Creciendo Libre provides readers with a straightforward, action-oriented approach to the problem of domestic violence. A companion volume available separately, A Therapist's Guide to Growing Free (available in English only), offers therapists a comprehensive outline of the issues, tasks, and goals involved in treatment with victims and survivors. Rompe el patron del abusode una manera segura! Mujeres abusadas muchas veces llegan a temer, aislarse, y a auto dudarse al punto que no logran reconocer que estan siendo victimizadas. Ellas podran minimizar la seriedad del abuso y hacer excusas para encubrir al ofensor. Las listas, cuestionarios, y relatos personales en Creciendo Libre pueden proveer el susto necesario para que ellas reconozcan que, Esto esta mal y tiene que terminar. Combina la revelacion psicologica e informacion practica, para ayudar a que el lector de Creciendo Libre pueda entender y parar-el ciclo vicioso del cortejo, la tension, la violencia, y la culpabilidad que caracteriza todos los niveles de la violencia domestica. Este libro delinea una serie de pasos para que la mujer abusada llege ha asequrar su seguridad emocional y fisica. Creciendo Libre ofrece recursos practicos y psicologicos incluyendo: listas de comportamientos abusivos desde la rediculizacion de los miembro de la familia hasta la violencia fisica racionalizaciones del abuso comunmente utilizadas por la victima y el ofensor una explicacion detalladas sobre la orden de proteccion y otros asuntos legales preparacion y medidas de precaucion detalladamente explicados que puedan hacer que el irse sea menos peligroso consejos sobre lo que se debe llevar cuando decida irse guias para establezer una relacion segura en un futuro Creciendo Libre provee al lector un metodo directo, orientado al la accion para resolver problemas sobre la violencia domestica. El volumen que le acompana esta separadamente disponible. El Guia del Terapeuta de Creciendo Libre, ofrece un esquema comprensivo de los asuntos, tareas, y metas impuestas en el tratamiento de las victimas y sobrevivientes.

Governing Child Sexual Abuse - Negotiating the Boundaries of Public and Private, Law and Science (Hardcover): Samantha Ashenden Governing Child Sexual Abuse - Negotiating the Boundaries of Public and Private, Law and Science (Hardcover)
Samantha Ashenden
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The turn of the 1990s saw a number of high profile public inquiries into the handling of child sexual abuse cases in Great Britain. Governing Child Sexual Abuse examines the implications of these inquiries on the regulation of relationships between families and the state. In so doing, Samantha Ashenden brings a number of contemporary debates in social and political theory to bear upon the governance of child sexual abuse. In particular, drawing on the work of Foucault and Habermas, she looks at:

*how to analyze the boundary between public and private spheres
*the legal and scientific determination of legitimate intervention
*the relationship between democracy and expertise in the governance of social life.

This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of social and political theory, political sociology, the sociology of law, and social policy.

Is Anyone Listening? - Accountability and Women Survivors of Domestic Violence (Hardcover): Rosemary Aris, Gill Hague, Audrey... Is Anyone Listening? - Accountability and Women Survivors of Domestic Violence (Hardcover)
Rosemary Aris, Gill Hague, Audrey Mullender
R4,352 Discovery Miles 43 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Contents 1. Introduction Section One: Rethinking Service User Movements in Relation to Women Survivors of Violence 2. Women Survivors of Domestic Violence as Service Users: The Silenced Group 3. The Obstacles to Empowerment - What Kind of Power for Women Section Two: Women's Views and Voices in Domestic Violence Services 4. What Abused Women Think of the Service They Receive 5. How Much Do Agencies Listen to Domestic Violence Survivors? Section Three: How to Engage in Survivor Participation and Consultation 6. How To Do It: Empowerment and Stigma 7. How To Do It: Policies, Sensitivities and Resources 8. Practical Ways Forward and Innovation, Including Domestic Violence Forums 9. Further Innovatory Practice: Women's Aid, Women's Advocacy Organisations and Campaigns 10. Other Methods of Survivors Participation and Getting Agencies to Take Action 11. Conclusion

Is Anyone Listening? - Accountability and Women Survivors of Domestic Violence (Paperback, New): Rosemary Aris, Gill Hague,... Is Anyone Listening? - Accountability and Women Survivors of Domestic Violence (Paperback, New)
Rosemary Aris, Gill Hague, Audrey Mullender
R1,466 Discovery Miles 14 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Domestic violence is in the public eye as never before, but how often are abused women consulted or involved in the new services and policies? This book investigates, and reveals that the voices of survivors of domestic violence are often simply not heard; silenced, the women themselves become invisible.
Is Anyone Listening? draws on the experiences of other service user movements to provide a strong conceptual framework for thinking about abused women's participation in policy and service development. It discusses empowerment issues and the women's movement against gender violence, exploring how far refuge organisations and other women's movement services have influenced statutory services and vice versa. It includes many practical ideas for involving women in the improvement of both policy and practice and gives examples of inspiring and innovatory projects.
Based on a study carried out as part of the Economic and Social Research Council's Violence Research Programme, Is Anyone Listening? offers a unique analysis of the sensitive and complex issues involved in developing service user participation within the domestic violence field. The insights it provides will enable policy-makers, activists, students, practitioners and women who have experienced domestic violence to move forward together.

Sex Cult Nun (Paperback): Faith Jones Sex Cult Nun (Paperback)
Faith Jones
R326 Discovery Miles 3 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Both inspiring and disturbing, Sex Cult Nun unravels Jones' complicated upbringing, the trauma she endured as a result and her eventual path to liberation.' TIME 'A moving story about family, courage, religious oppression, and more, and readers will have their heads spinning.' SHONDALAND 'Her gripping memoir-like Educated-takes you inside a disturbing childhood and leaves you marvelling at the resilience of the human spirit' PEOPLE MAGAZINE Faith Jones was raised to be part of an elite army preparing for the End Times. Isolated on a farm in Macau, she practised devotions and read letters of prophecy written by her grandfather, the leader of the now infamous cult, The Children of God. A direct decedent of the founding family, Faith featured in international media coverage - she was celebrated as extraordinary and then published doubly as a sharp reminder that she was not. With indomitable grit, Faith created a world of her own, pilfering books and educating herself in secret. At the age of 23, she escaped, abandoning her history, her inheritance and her legacy. While her childhood friends succumbed to addiction, suicide and prostitution, Faith fought her way into Georgetown University and went on to establish a successful career in law. Sex Cult Nun is an enthralling coming-of-age story that gives fascinating insight into the closed and complex world of extreme belief. Exploring the issues of psychological and physical control, Faith draws on her hard-won insight to interrogate the binaries of good and evil, and shed light on the insidiousness of oppression. At its heart, this extraordinary story is a stark warning about the consequences of surrendering our rights and responsibilities.

Courting Disaster - Intimate Stalking, Culture and Criminal Justice (Paperback, New): Jennifer L. Dunn Courting Disaster - Intimate Stalking, Culture and Criminal Justice (Paperback, New)
Jennifer L. Dunn
R1,346 Discovery Miles 13 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is about women who are coerced, intimidated, and stalked by former intimates. It is about the things these women do to manage this situation, and what happens to them as a consequence. Stalking is a behavior that has relatively recently been defined as problematic, and as criminal when violence or the threat of violence occurs. This new category of crime has created a new type of victim. How such victims come into being, interact with their former partners, and seek help, is the subject of this book. It is also about living through what some women consider a form of secondary victimization by the criminal justice system.

The definition of someone as a victim is not self-evident, but is contingent upon interpretation. Thus this book is also an account of how women come to decide they are victims of stalking and seek to convince others of this. It uses a variety of data and methods to examine this phenomenon from the perspectives of both victims and law enforcement agents, and adds to our understanding of responsibility and blame when violence occurs between intimates. By examining social constructions of this particular type of victimization and the choices stalking victims make, the readers learn more about the forces constraining human decisions.

Stalking victimization is complicated because it is an ongoing process. It often does not stop once the criminal justice system is involved. Women who are being stalked by their former partners face a profound dilemma in their efforts to manage their pursuers and to pursue their cases through the criminal justice system.

Dunn offers a wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and sensitive examination of the lived experience of intimate stalking victimization. In exploring the ways in which we socially construct and confer meaning upon intimate violence, the author draws upon interviews with stalkers and victims, courtroom testimony, analyses of case reports, and an independent survey instrument that reveals ambivalence of the prevailing culture to the problem. "Courting Disaster" will be valuable in women's studies and counseling courses and a useful text in sociology and criminology.

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