The Battered Woman and Shelters

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The Battered Woman and Shelters is written by Donileen R. Loseke and published by State University of New York Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1438411294 (ISBN 10) and 9781438411293 (ISBN 13).

Arguing that we commonly understand "wife abuse" and the "battered woman" in terms of standardized images of problems and people, the author explores how these images inform and shape social services for women who have been assaulted. Using ethnographic data of shelter work from the perspective of workers, she shows how these standardized images affect organizational structure and how front-line workers make sense of their interventions into clients' lives.