Wife rape : understanding the response of survivors and service providers / Raquel Kennedy Bergen.

With expertise and sensitivity, the author of this accessibly written volume addresses a real but long-neglected problem: the pain and humiliation of sexual assault suffered by many women at the hands of their partners. Extensive gathering of personal testimony from survivors, together with intervie...

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Main Author: Bergen, Raquel Kennedy.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, ©1996.
Series:Sage series on violence against women ; v. 2.
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Table of Contents:
  • An introduction to the problem of wife rape
  • Understanding women's experiences of wife rape
  • Defining and ending the violence
  • The response of two agencies to wife rape
  • Providing services to wife rape survivors
  • Current trends and future directions.