Arguing that we commonly understand "wife abuse" and the "battered woman" in terms of standardized images of problems and people, the author explores how these images inform and shape social services for women who have been assaulted. Using ethnographic data of shelter work from the perspective of workers, she shows how these standardized images affect organizational structure and how front-line workers make sense of their interventions into clients' lives.
- ISBN10 0791408310
- ISBN13 9780791408315
- Publish Date 24 February 1992 (first published 6 February 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint State University of New York Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English