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What responses do medical authorities have toward wife abuse? A first of its kind, this provocative volume brings together a well-known group of academicians, activists, and clinicians from a variety of disciplines who approach these questions from a distinctly feminist perspective. Their research is based upon the premise that gender inequality is the source of violence against women, and that the social institutions of marriage and family are special contexts that may promote, maintain, and even support men′s use of physical force against women. In addition, they critically analyze lay and academic theories of wife abuse in order to develop theories that more accurately reflect the experiences of women.  \"Feminist Perspectives on Wife Abuse. . .has a number of strengths. It challenges most explicitly the ideology of the safe home, offers excellent critiques of the methodology of family-violence research, and considers the politics of research. It is the only book under review that gives as much attention to the question of why men assault as it does to how women respond. It also emphasizes methods, clinical practice, and how to bridge research and practice. . . .I especially recommend Feminist Perspectives on Wife Abuse for courses on methods. I have used it there with great success.\"  --Gender \u0026amp; Society  \"Must be on the bookshelf of every serious thinker in the family violence area.\"  --Richard J. Gelles, University of Rhode Island  \"Neatly balanced between research and practice, this volume addresses the challenge of how we can maintain a feminist perspective in our work with battered women. The major strength of this book is its self-reflective nature. The book goes beyond critiques by addressing the complexity of bringing feminism into research and practice and presenting ways in which it can be dealt with. It also demonstrates the great rewards that result from addressing this complexity, rather than trying to manage it or ignore it.\"  --AFFILIA  \"All researchers, clinicians, and advocates concerned with wife abuse should consider the questions and issues raised by this volume.\"  --Violence and Victims  \"This is a well-written book. Many of the contributors are well-known researchers in the area of family violence. The volume is also amazingly coherent for an edited book. Each of the chapters complements the others, and there is little overlap of material. Feminist Perspectives on Wife Abuse is highly recommended.\"  --Contemporary Psychology  \"For clinicians, this book offers strong messages with an emphasis on empowerment of women, suggesting that women are not simply  helpless victims but are able to make their own decisions with appropriate intervention strategies. Furthermore, this book has shown the integration between feminist theories and practice. The current trend toward the battered women′s shelter movement and various domestic abuse intervention programs is demonstrated as a result of strong advocates whose interests correspond with feminist philosophies and beliefs. . . . This book delivers strong messages to everyone who is concerned about and involved in wife abuse and challenges current perspectives on wife abuse.\"  --Sociological Inquiry  \"Valuable resource for teaching and research. It would be appropriate for courses in research methods, feminist theory, criminology, social work, or upper-level courses on family violence.\"  --National Women′s Studies Association  \"This [book] shows how good an anthology can be.\"  --Isis  \"Feminist Perspectives on Wife Abuse is a thought-provoking and valuable anthology of feminist research and activism as they relate to the study and eradication of wife abuse.  As the title implies, this book does not join in the current movement of tiptoeing around the issue of wife abuse by erroneously referring to it as spouse abuse, domestic violence, or family violence.  On the contrary, this is a collection of fifteen excellent contributions by feminist women and pro-feminist men who are not afraid to offer truly feminist perspectives on male violence against their intimate partners. . . .The two chapters most relevant to community psychologists address how psychological test can misdiagnose and\\or misrepresent the experiences of women with abusive partners. . . .In short, Feminist Perspectives on Wife Abuse is thought provoking and challenges the reader to examine her or his motives and biases, to put theories into practice to create lasting social change, and to work collaboratively with grassroots activists who bring their own expertise and skills to the task of ending male violence against women.\"  --The Community Psychologist","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49628615016721,"sku":"GOR005724375","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52138621108497,"sku":"NLS9780803930537","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0803930534.jpg?v=1751425357"},{"product_id":"studying-elites-using-qualitative-methods-book-rosanna-hertz-9780803970373","title":"Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods","description":"This volume provides valuable insights into how researchers can successfully gain access to elite settings. 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Successful Focus Groups is clearly one of the most helpful treatises on focus group research. . . . this text will advance the quality of focus group research. I recommend Successful Focus Groups to anyone interested in learning about doing focus group research.\"    --Susan A. Stearns in Qualitative Studies in Education    \"There is original material and the overall breadth and ease of presentation of the material make this the most comprehensive and readable book produced so far on the subject. . . . In many of the chapters, examples from actual studies are used to illustrate the basics or discuss particular issues involved in the approach. This grounding of the discussion is particularly appealing.\"     --Contemporary Sociology     \"This book systematically addresses the issues, practice, wisdom, and problems in conducting focus groups. It is an integrated collection of articles representing the state of the art in focus group applications. 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Controversy, a set of case studies edited by Nelkin... easily earns its place on my bookshelf.\"   - Knowledge      \"[A] marvelous collection of case studies.... I hope that the cases in this book are widely read and discussed by business and government executives as well as students.\"   - The American Political Science Review","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50148015276305,"sku":"CIN0803944675VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0803944675.jpg?v=1723774556"},{"product_id":"investigating-subjectivity-book-carolyn-sue-ellis-9780803944978","title":"Investigating Subjectivity","description":"Much has been missed by social researchers in their attempt to understand the human experience as a series of rational, cognitive choices. 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They provide some much-needed conceptual elaboration and empirical detail--elaboration and detail that earlier contextualist perspectives have not provided. . . . Despite being an edited volume, this book is surprisingly well focused and delicious to consume. . . . In directing our attention to the usual darkened and easily overlooked corners of organizational strife, this book provides a particularly compelling documentation of the social contextualist thesis. By documenting how minimal most organizational actors′ awareness of context is, coupled with active processes of denial, avoidance, and discounting, this book reminds us just how important it is to attend occasionally to the perceptual ground within which a figure is embedded. . . . The book does a beautiful job at articulating the importance of social context.  --Negotiation Journal  \"What a timely and much needed volume for the field of conflict research! We believe wholeheartedly in the book′s continuous theme about there being a ′hidden′ side to conflict--a side which we feel is hidden to scholars, not to disputants or even practitioners. . . . The volume′s contributors clearly illustrate that unexplored gaps exist between the ′conflict′ studied by scholars and the multifaceted experience of those knee-deep in organizational conflict. . . . The reward for this focus is a richer and more dynamic picture of the experiences and functions of conflict in the organization. . . . This volume will and, indeed, should make us more aware of our own ways of constructing other′s disputes and, hence, the field′s current theories and prescriptions and proscriptions. This work will really have its impact when it significantly transforms our ways of studying and understanding conflict and eventually leads us to develop innovative and more effective ways for people to deal with (resolve or stimulate) their disputes in the workplace. We thank the editors and the authors for a wonderful beginning.\"  --Journal of Organizational Behavior  \"Necessary reading for anyone interested in a comprehensive understanding of conflict theory. The dominant strength of this book is that it looks beyond the sometimes fraudulently tidy constructs of conflict theory to the messy and often irrational nature of social intercourse. . . . The succinct recapitulation of organizational theory that is relevant to conflict studies, and the extensive notes and bibliographical references in the book give the reader quick and effective access to the conflict resolution literature. The case-study approach makes the book attractive as supplementary reading.\"  --Canadian Journal of Communication  \"Scholarly works that invite--or force--critical reexamination of assumptive frameworks are especially valuable. Hidden Conflict in Organizations is such a work. . . . The authors of the present volume go beyond early contributions, however, by providing much needed conceptual elaboration and empirical detail regarding precisely how conflicts remain hidden in organizations and the consequences of such ′hiddenness.′. . . The conceptual contributions made by these diverse individual efforts become most obvious when they are viewed against the backdrop of mainstream conflict theory and research. . . . Hidden Conflict does a service by reminding us also of the many ways in which conflict is embedded in larger, more complex social contexts and cultures. . . . This is the kind of book that reminds you of the pleasures of subtlety and that prompts a more nuanced understanding of a phenomenon. Good scholarly works, like good poetry, often bring to light lacunae. They allow one to feel the textures and contours of a landscape that often escape the eye. This is such a book.\"  --The Academy of Management Review  \"The book represents a thoughtful collection of recent research and provocative thinking about very different kinds of disputes, mostly covert and informal, and how they are managed or left to fester in very different kinds of organizational settings. . . . This is a unique contribution to the study of conflict in organizations. . . . The authors have made a major contribution to a vast body of knowledge and opened up new avenues for applied research. . . . The authors are to be lauded for raising our awareness of hidden conflicts, their pervasiveness, and destructiveness in organizations of all kinds. . . . If you are a student of conflict and are seeking a scholarly work, this book is for you. It . . . will broaden your perspective, tell you something you didn′t know, and give you plenty to think about.\"  --Personnel Psychology  \"This book lends a refreshing perspective on an old theme.\"  --Stern′s HR Management Review  \"This is a much needed and delightful book about the hidden side of organizational life. The wide variety of settings in which hidden conflicts are observed and the high quality of the authors and their writing makes this not only an important but eminently readable book.\"  Edgar H. Schein, Sloan School of Management,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology  \"The individual essays are excellent and well written. . . . Each of the essays, in addition to descriptive material, offers a useful theoretical framework for understanding informal dispute resolution. The essays would provide useful supplemental reading for a course in dispute resolution theory and also could be used as examples in a practice course.\"  --The Alternative Newsletter  Conflict is a persistent fact of organizational life. In the midst of daily activities, disputes arise over a host of work and other issues. In contrast to the findings in traditional studies of conflict in organizations, most organizational conflict never becomes public. Rather, it is expressed during routine social and work-related interactions among members, and occurs in ways that reflect the specific organizational structures and cultures in which the interactions are embedded.  This examination richly details some of these less public forms of conflict, which may take the form of avoidance, toleration, gossip, and vengeance. 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Adding a new dimension to the study of organizational conflict, this volume looks at the frequency of conflict, shows how conflicts are \"really\" handled in organizations, and suggests that these conflicts can be better managed for organizational effectiveness.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50183903543569,"sku":"CIN0803941617G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50900803617041,"sku":"CIN0803941617VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51938337816849,"sku":"GOR002735292","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52138844815633,"sku":"NLS9780803941618","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0803941617.jpg?v=1751362440"},{"product_id":"changing-men-book-michael-s-kimmel-9780803929975","title":"Changing Men","description":"Changing Men assembles some of the most innovative and exciting research on men and masculinity. As such, it contributes to the demarcation of a new field called men′s studies, as well as to the examination of masculinity within traditional academic disciplines. The contributors deal with such broad topical and methodological issues as reformulating the male role, men in domestic settings, men\/women relationships, sexuality, race and gender, and future directions for men′s studies. All the contributors offer scholarly treatments of the issues raised by this emerging field.  Ideally suited for gender studies courses either as a text or text supplement, this distinctive volume can also be used in family studies, psychology, social psychology, and sociology courses.  Changing Men \"contains some very good things which make the book worth having.  Two excellent papers use life history interviews: to trace the tensions in the life-course of American male athletes, especially how they handle the end of a sporting career (Messner); and to map the various strategies by which married American women handle their relations with their husbands (Gerson).  A well-observed workplace ethnography looks at sexual joking in American male-dominated settings like restaurant kitchens, and the dilemmas it poses for women workers (Fine)....An intelligent piece of social psychology, informed both by Freud and a sense of historical context, looks at the role of homophobia in the construction of American heterosexual masculinity (Herek).  A fine piece of history--and the one article in the book not centred on the US--looks at the interplay of sexual politics and imperialist ideology in colonial Benga (Sinha)....Finally there is a superb essay by Lyman discussing an episode of collective sexual harassment in an American university, fascinating in particular for its account of the way ′normal′ gender relations were negotiated back into place after being disrupted.\"  --Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology  \"A valuable addition to any reference library.\"  --Family Life Educator  \"Written for anyone interested in the evolving roles of men and women in contemporary society, clinicians will find ample material to help them better understand their clients; researchers will be challenged to new vistas; and teachers will find valuable new insights into changing roles and may be challenged to add coursework about men′s roles.\"  --Family Relations  \"Concerning both approach and analysis, we found Kimmel′s contribution interesting and inviting for further research along these lines.\"  --The Dutch Journal of Women′s Studies  \"[Changing Men] attempts to push back the frontiers of ignorance and stake out the new territory of men′s studies. . . . This lucid book certainly establishes the potential of men′s studies. It is also likely that some of the chapters will deservedly find their way onto reading lists in related academic areas.\"  --Reviewing Sociology  \"An eclectic selection of writings, reflecting the aims and attitudes of the men′s studies movement. 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Taken together, both are used in a complementary fashion to shed light on the central question in process research, namely how psychotherapy brings about change.\"  --Marvin Goldfried,  Department of Psychology, SUNY at Stony Brook","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52138995843345,"sku":"NLS9780803943551","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52929404961041,"sku":"GOR009668948","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53362528518417,"sku":"NIN9780803943551","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780803943551.jpg?v=1757566342"},{"product_id":"sense-of-justice-book-roger-masters-9780803943988","title":"The Sense of Justice","description":"What does it mean to have a sense of justice? 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Interpersonal Communication in Older Adulthood demonstrates the rich diversity of methods and traditions of communication research that are beginning to illuminate gerontology.\"  --Nikolas Coupland,  University of Wales, Cardiff  By highlighting the commonalities across a range of disciplines, Interpersonal Communication in Older Adulthood provides a unique and broad-based perspective on communication and aging. This integrative approach brings together the best of the current research and theory from communication, cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, and medical sociology. The underlying framework of the book centers around three topics--cognition, language, and relationships--exploring the individual areas as well as the ways they intersect. 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After building a strong rationale for the volume, the editors go on to put together a series of well-written chapters that provide a much needed emphasis on the social construction of relationships through communication. The book should prompt much new research and advance our understanding of interpersonal communication and the aging process significantly.\"  --Teresa Thompson,  University of Dayton  \"The rich diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives highlighted within the various chapters is an impressive feature of this edited collection. These essays add conceptual breadth and depth to our understanding of interpersonal communication and the process of aging.\"  --Mary Anne Fitzpatrick,  Department of Communication Arts,  University of Wisconsin  \"This book is a valuable addition to the gerontological literature. Written from the perspective of the communication researcher, it brings together existing literature and offers new insights to gerontologists working in many social science disciplines. I recommend Interpersonal Communication in Older Adulthood as a resource to any scholars interested in older adults.\"  --Victor G. Cicirelli,  Professor of Developmental and Aging Psychology,  Purdue University  \"This book is very timely. Communication is offering a new wave of aging research, and interpersonal processes in communication are where our experiences and our personal theories of aging are grounded. This book brings together many of the researchers who are breaking new ground in communication and aging. It offers a valuable overview of where we have gone in aging theory communicatively, and where we need to go. Interpersonal Communication in Older Adulthood demonstrates the rich diversity of methods and traditions of communication research that are beginning to illuminate gerontology.\"  --Nikolas Coupland,  University of Wales, Cardiff  By highlighting the commonalities across a range of disciplines, Interpersonal Communication in Older Adulthood provides a unique and broad-based perspective on communication and aging. This integrative approach brings together the best of the current research and theory from communication, cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, and medical sociology. The underlying framework of the book centers around three topics--cognition, language, and relationships--exploring the individual areas as well as the ways they intersect. In addition, this volume brings to light the implications of the elderly population′s individual differences as they affect communication, and illustrates the positive as well as the negative effects of the aging process on language production, relational satisfaction, and other communication-related variables.  This major reference source, Interpersonal Communication in Older Adulthood, is essential reading for anyone concerned with the issues of aging and communication.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52678677594385,"sku":"NLS9780803951167","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780803951167.jpg?v=1762308699"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/sage-focus-editions-book-series.oembed?page=3","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}