Wife rape
Subtitle: understanding the response of survivors and service providers
By: Raquel Kennedy Bergen.
Series: Sage series on violence against women ;; v. 2
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Rape in marriage -- United States; Rape in marriage -- United States -- Case studies; Abused wives -- United States -- Case studies; Abused wives -- Services for -- United States
Description: Attending to a subject long neglected by research and popular spheres, author Raquel Kennedy Bergen addresses the deep pain and humiliation of sexual assault suffered by countless numbers of women at the hands of their partners. Wife Rape lends voice to the personal testimonies of survivors and contrasts these stories with interviews of service providers, illustrating the lack of validation and insufficient assistance currently available to wife rape survivors.

Offering insight and hope to survivors and providing critical information to service providers, this valuable volume helps readers better understand wife rape and the response of agencies to the problem. In addition, a special guide to service providers, a state law chart, and a list of organizations that provide information on rape make this book an important resource.

. Offering an essential check on the reality of Wife Rape, this timely and accessibly written volume is excellent reading for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, police officers, religious leaders, students, clients, and all those who would like to become better informed about this issue.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-171) and index.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to the problem of wife rape; title: Understanding women's experiences of wife rape; title: Defining and ending the violence; title: The response of two agencies to wife rape; title: Providing services to wife rape survivors; title: Current trends and future directions.