The Battered Woman and Shelters: The Social Construction of Wife Abuse (SUNY series in Deviance and Social Control)
Donileen R. Loseke examines wife abuse and the role of shelters in this sociological study. Focusing on the social construction of battered women, the book considers how domestic violence is understood within systems of deviance and social control.
About This Book
The Battered Woman and Shelters examines wife abuse through a sociological lens.
The book focuses on battered women and the shelters created to support them.
Its discussion considers how abuse is socially constructed and understood within broader systems of deviance and social control.
This volume is part of the SUNY series in Deviance and Social Control and is suited to readers studying domestic violence, gender, and social institutions.
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