| Edition |
2nd edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (604 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Perspectives on Violence -- Voices of Women from the Margins : Re-examining Violence against Women -- Family Violence or Woman Abuse? Putting Gender Back into the Canadian Research Equation -- Is This Violence? Is This Sexual Violence? Recognizing & Defining Violence through Dialogue with French-Speaking Women -- Child Corporal Punishment : Violence, Law, & Rights -- Violence, Trauma, & Resilience -- Systemic Oppression, Violence, & Healing in Aboriginal Families & Communities -- Violence, Protection, & Empowerment in the Lives of Children & Adults with Disabilities -- Dynamics of Partner Abuse in Sexual & Gender Minority Communities -- Domestic Violence & Child Abuse : Issues for Immigrant & Refugee Families -- Children Abused, Neglected, & Living with Violence : An Overview -- Childrens Exposure to Domestic Violence : Integrating Policy, Research, & Practice to Address Childrens Mental Health -- Whose Failure to Protect? Child Welfare Interventions When Men Abuse Mothers -- Rendering Children Invisible : The Forces at Play during Separation & Divorce in the Context of Family Violence -- Framing Woman Abuse : A Structural Perspective -- Identifying, Assessing, & Treating Men Who Abuse & Women Abused by Intimate Partners -- Elder Abuse & Neglect in Canada : An Overview -- Older People Are Subjects, Not Objects : Reconsidering Theory & Practice in Situations of Elder Abuse -- CONCLUSION : Building the Future. |
| Summary |
A comprehensive picture of the scope of violence in all types of Canadian families and intimate relationships. Inclusive focus and multi-faceted examination and integration of research, policies and practice addressing the roots, laws, theory, incidence, dynamics, intervention in and prevention of, violence in Canadian families. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Family violence -- Canada.
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Family violence. |
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Canada. |
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Women -- Violence against -- Canada.
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Women -- Violence against. |
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Children and violence -- Canada.
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Children and violence. |
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Abused older people -- Canada.
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Abused older people. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Vine, Cathy, 1958- editor.
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Alaggia, Ramona, 1957- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Alaggia, Ramona Cruel but Not Unusual : Violence in Canadian Families, 2nd Edition Waterloo, ON : Wilfrid Laurier University Press,c2012 9781554588275 |
| ISBN |
9781554588503 (electronic book) |
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1554588502 (electronic book) |
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9781554588510 |
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1554588510 |
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