Cruel but not unusual : violence in Canadian families /
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| Language: | English |
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
©2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction. Cruel But Not Unusual: Violence in the Canadian Family
- Section 1. Violence and Diversity: History, Culture, and Opression
- 1. Systemic oppression, violence, and healing in Aboriginal families and communities
- 2. Violence, protection, and empowerment in the lives of children and adults with disabilities
- 3. Is this violence? Recognizing, defining, and intervening in family violence in a francophone minority context
- 4. Domestic violence and child abuse: Issues for immigrant and refugee families
- 5. Same-sex partner abuse: Challenges to the existing paradigms of intimate violence theory
- Section 2. Children Growing Up with Violence: Context and Intervention
- 6. Children abused, neglected, and living with violence: An overview
- 7. Child corporal punishment: Violence, law, and rights
- 8. Children's exposure to domestic violence
- 9. Failure to protect: Child welfare interventions when men beat mothers
- 10. Rendering children invisible: The forces at play during separation and divorce in the context of family violence
- Section 3. Abuse of Women: Context, Theory, and Practice
- 11. Framing woman abuse: A structural perspective
- 12. Identifying, assessing, and treating male perpetrators and abused women
- 13. Escaping narratives of domination: Ideas for clinical practice with women oppressed by relationship violence
- Section 4. Abuse of older adults: Context, theory, and practice
- 14. The abuse and neglect of older adults in Canada
- 15. Older people as objects, not subjects: Theory and practice in situations of elder abuse
- Conclusion. Future Directions
- Focus for Change
- Contributors.