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Moral wages : the emotional dilemmas of victim advocacy and counseling /
Moral Wages offers the reader a vivid depiction of what it is like to work inside an agency that assists victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Based on over a year of fieldwork by a man in a setting many presume to be hostile to men, this ethnographic account is unlike most research on th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Moral Wages offers the reader a vivid depiction of what it is like to work inside an agency that assists victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Based on over a year of fieldwork by a man in a setting many presume to be hostile to men, this ethnographic account is unlike most research on the topic of violence against women. Instead of focusing on the victims or perpetrators of abuse, Moral Wages focuses exclusively on the service providers in the middle. It shows how victim advocates and counselors-who don't enjoy extrinsic benefits like pay, power, and prestige-are sustained by a dif. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 223 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-211) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520958661 0520958667 9781306878357 1306878357 0520282728 9780520282728 |