Backs Against the Wall: Battered Women's Resistance Strategies

This book tackles several controversial aspects involved with intimate partner violence (IPV). This sensitive and sensible feminist perspective concerning battered women's use of different resistance strategies, and the reasons why they use them, also focuses on ways to support victims through intervention and prevention strategies.

Author: Kathy A. McCloskey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/23/2008
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.25w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780789035844

About the Author

Kathy A. McCloskey is Associate Professor at the University of Hartford, Graduate Institute of Professional Psychology in Hartford, CT. Her specialties include domestic violence, trauma, forensic populations, and the training of doctoral-level clinical psychologists.

Marilyn Sitaker, MPH, is Section Epidemiologist at the Washington State Department of Health in Olympia, WA, where she is responsible for surveillance and evaluation of policy and environmental interventions to reduce the prevalence of obesity and obesity-related chronic diseases.