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Dangerous Exits
Price: $22.95
Subtitle:
Escaping Abusive
Relationships in Rural America
Author:
Walter S. DeKeseredy
and Martin D. Schwartz
Foreword by Joseph F. Donnermeyer
Subject: Criminology,
Sociology,
Women's
Studies
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4519-6
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4518-9
Pages: 272 pages
Publication Date: June 2008
Series:
Critical
Issues in Crime and Society
Praise for Dangerous Exits
"This book deserves a
special place among the panoply of new scholarship on rural crime.
Innovative and multi-dimensional, Dangerous Exits sounds a powerful
call for action and policy change."—from the
foreword by Joseph F. Donnermeyer
"Dangerous Exits is a
critically important book that details the often invisible terror that
many rural women face in their own homes. This books makes a valuable
contribution to the field of Violence Against Women by addressing three
areas we know far too little about--intimate partner sexual violence,
the experiences of rural women, and separation/divorce violence. Dangerous Exits is destined to be a
classic-it should be found on the bookshelves of all of us who study
violence against women."—Raquel Bergen,
author of Wife Rape: Understanding
the Response of Survivors and Service Providers
"DeKeseredy
and Schwartz shatter the myth of rural America as idyll of
hearth and home, exposing with empirical rigor and analytic insight the
dangers to battered women of both the geographic and social isolation
characteristic of many rural communities."
—Claire M.
Renzetti, Editor, Violence Against
Women
"Dangerous Exits [is] a new
qualitative study examining the physical, psychological, and sexual
violence experienced by rural women in the process of leaving their
intimate partners. The book consistently takes its cues from the voices
of real rural women, and its grounding in the principles of
participatory feminist research is nothing short of exemplary."—Journal of Rural Research and Policy
Description:
Decade after decade, violence against women has gained more
attention from scholars, policy makers, and the general public. Social
scientists in particular have contributed significant empirical and
theoretical understandings to this issue.
Strikingly, scant attention has focused on the victimization of women
who want to leave their hostile partners. This groundbreaking work
challenges the perception that rural communities are safe havens from
the brutality of urban living. Identifying hidden crimes of economic
blackmail and psychological mistreatment, and the complex relationship
between patriarchy and abuse, Walter S. DeKeseredy and Martin D.
Schwartz propose concrete and effective solutions, giving voice to
women who have often suffered in silence.
About the Authors:
Walter
S. DeKeseredy is a professor of criminology, justice, and policy
studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He is the
recipient of the Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence
Researcher Award from the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma
(IVAT).
Martin Schwartz
is a professor of sociology at Ohio University
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