Family violence in Australia
By: edited by Carol O'Donnell and Jan Craney.
Contributors: O'Donnell, Carol.; Craney, Jan, 1941-
Series: Australian studies
Publisher: Longman Cheshire
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Melbourne, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Family violence -- Australia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The invention of the pathological family / Judith Allen; title: Domestic violence, cases before Chamber Magistrates / V. Johnson, K. Ross, and T. Vinson; title: Domestic violence and sex and class inequality / Carol O'Donnell and Heather Saville; title: Women who kill husbands / Wendy Bacon and Robyn Landsdowne; title: Refuges / Heather Saville; title: Domestic violence, the police response / Jocelynne A. Scutt; title: Domestic violence, the legal responses / Penelope Stratmann; title: Domestic violence, social solutions / Maria Girdler; title: Incest and the reproduction of the patriarchal family / Carol O'Donnell and Jan Craney; title: The social construction of child abuse / Carol O'Donnell and Jan Craney.