Journeys : resilience and growth for survivors of intimate partner abuse /

"More than one in three women in the United States has experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime. Luckily, many are able to escape this life--but what happens to them after? Journeys focuses on the desperately understudied topic of the resiliency...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Susan L. (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press [2018]
Series:Gender and justice (University of California Press) ; 5.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt2204phk
Table of Contents:
  • Framing the issues
  • Situating the research project
  • "Leaving the horrible for the not-so-horrible"
  • Meaning-making and posttraumatic growth
  • Support networks and structural challenges
  • Paths to survivorship and suggestions for policy.