Abusive Endings: Separation and Divorce Violence against Women

by Walter S. DeKeseredy, Molly Dragiewicz, Martin D. Schwartz

Overview

Abusive Endings offers a thorough analysis of the social-science literature on one of the most significant threats to the health and well-being of women today—abuse at the hands of their male partners. The authors provide a moving description of why and how men abuse women in myriad ways during and after a separation or divorce. The material is punctuated with the stories and voices of both perpetrators and survivors of abuse, as told to the authors over many years of fieldwork. Written in a highly readable fashion, this book will be a useful resource for researchers, practitioners, activists, and policy makers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520285750
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	05/16/2017
Series:	Gender and Justice , #4
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Walter S. DeKeseredy is Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at West Virginia University. 

Molly Dragiewicz is Associate Professor in the School of Justice, Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology. 

Martin D. Schwartz is Professional Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at George Washington University, and Professor Emeritus and Presidential Research Scholar at Ohio University. 

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

1 Conceptualizing Separation/Divorce Violence against Women 1

2 The Extent and Distribution of Separation/Divorce Assault 29

3 New Technologies and Separation/Divorce Violence against Women 65

4 Explaining Separation/Divorce Violence against Women 86

5 Children as Collateral Victims of Separation/Divorce Woman Abuse 115

6 What Is to Be Done about Separation/Divorce Violence against Women? 141

Notes 175

References 181

Index 221

Editorial Reviews

"Abusive Endings is written by self-proclaimed feminist scholars and practitioners who indeed challenge our beliefs and fuel our appetite for knowledge. It is a powerful resource for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and all humans, inspiring us to challenge and alter our culture’s response to men’s violence against women."

Criminal Justice Studies

A well-written and well- organized review of extant studies on violence against women. ... Everyone should read this book and reflect on the devastation that violence against women continues to cause to our societies.

Contemporary Sociology