Abusive Endings: Separation and Divorce Violence against Women
Walter S. DeKeseredy, Molly Dragiewicz, and Martin D. Schwartz
Abstract
This book provides scholars, students, practitioners, and policy makers with a comprehensive review of the most up-to-date social scientific literature on lethal and nonlethal forms of male-to-female violence during and after separation and divorce. Special attention is devoted to reviewing theoretical perspectives on the topic and the ways in which various technologies are used by men to hurt the women who want to leave them, have begun to emotionally separate, are trying to leave them, in the process of leaving them, or who have left them. This book also provides solutions that cover a broad ... More
This book provides scholars, students, practitioners, and policy makers with a comprehensive review of the most up-to-date social scientific literature on lethal and nonlethal forms of male-to-female violence during and after separation and divorce. Special attention is devoted to reviewing theoretical perspectives on the topic and the ways in which various technologies are used by men to hurt the women who want to leave them, have begun to emotionally separate, are trying to leave them, in the process of leaving them, or who have left them. This book also provides solutions that cover a broad range of approaches: legal and criminal justice reforms; social services; economic policies; feminist men’s efforts; and new electronic technologies. Throughout the book are the voices of women who have experienced much pain and suffering, as well as the voices of abusive men. These narratives are derived from extensive research done over the past thirty years by the three authors.
Keywords:
divorce,
separation,
violence,
homicide,
assault,
gender
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780520285743 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: January 2018 |
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520285743.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Walter S. DeKeseredy, author
West Virginia University
Molly Dragiewicz, author
Queensland University of Technology
Martin D. Schwartz, author
George Washington University
More
Less
