Sheltering women : negotiating gender and violence in northern Italy / [electronic resource]
Plesset, Sonja.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
2006.
Offering an 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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-240) and index.
Engaging the field -- Postfeminist uncertainties -- Politics of gender and shelter -- Two sides of shame -- Gender proficiencies -- Engendering resistance -- Gendered divides.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Offering an 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.
Description based on print version record.
Women
Sex role
Wife abuse
Abused wives
Abused women
Women
Sex role
Wife abuse
Abused wives
Abused women
Gender & Ethnic Studies
Social Sciences
Gender Studies & Sexuality