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This major contribution to debates on violence and gender relations looks at abusive behaviour as it affects women, men, children and older people. The book is fundamentally concerned with the interrelations of theory and practice. It focuses both on the development of theory and on effective interventions and professional practices, particularly in the fields of social work and social welfare.

While a gendered approach to violence is the central theme of the book, other social divisions and oppressions - such as class, age and race - are analyzed, and their implications for intervention are considered. The book also explores the distinctions and connections between institutional and interpersonal violence. Special attention is given to current issues and debates: organizations and violence; men′s violence to women; and the relationship between violence, gender and generation. The contributors present important new empirical research on men′s violence to women and organizational responses, as well as providing more general theoretical analyses of the subject.

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• Introduction
• Part 1 Current Issues and Debates
• Women and Violence
• Commonalities and Diversities
• Men's Violence to Known Women
• Historical, Everyday and Theoretical Constructions by Men
• Part 2 Gendered Organizations
• The Organization(s) of Violence
• Gender, Violence and Social Work Organizations
• Gender and Power in Organizations
• Women, Mental Health and Community Care
• An Abusive Combination?
• Part 3 The Problem of Men's Violence
• Men's Violence to Known Women
• Men's Accounts and Men's Policy Developments
• Men's Resistance to Social Workers
• Working with Men Who Sexually Abuse Children
• The Experience of the Probation Service
• Part 4 Generation and Gender
• Violence, Gender and Elder Abuse
• Organized Abuse
• Themes and Issues
• Issues of Race and Culture in Child Abuse
• Victims or Villains? Women Who Physically Abuse Their Children

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Barbara Fawcett and Brid Featherstone are Lecturers in Social Work at the University of Bradford. Jeff Hearn is Senior University Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. Christine Toft is Conference Organizer and Departmental Administrator at the University of Bradford.

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Jalna Hanmer University of Bradford

Eluzabeth Harlow University of Bradford

Wendy Hollway University of Bradford

Elizabeth Lancaster University of Bradford

Judith Milner University of Huddersfield

Melody Mtezuka University of Manchester

Christine Toft University of Bradford

Terri Whittaker University of Liverpool