Type:	Non-Fiction
Title:	Why don't you just talk to him? The politics of domestic abuse
Authors:	Arnold, Kathleen R
Keywords:	Domestic violence;Victims / survivors;Family violence
Year:	2015
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Notes:	Presents the controversial thesis that targets are not merely ignored but actually punished for reporting cases of domestic abuse Draws on unusual sources, including: refugee cases, research on homelessness and shelters, and immigration and working class issues Applies sustained theoretical argument to issue of domestic violence Why Don't You Just Talk to Him? looks at the broad political contexts in which violence, specifically domestic violence, occurs. Kathleen Arnold argues that liberal and Enlightenment notions of the social contract, rationality and egalitarianism — the ideas that constitute norms of good citizenship — have an inextricable relationship to violence.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/11670
Physical description:	280 p.
Appears in Collections:	Books

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