Article
Who Owns Domestic Abuse?: The Local Politics of a Social Problem, by Ruth M. Mann
Journal of Marriage and Family
(2001)
Abstract
Who Owns Domestic Abuse? is an ambitious book. Ruth Mann's stated goals are twofold: (a) to examine the unintended consequences of struggles for ownership of a new women's shelter in a Southern Ontario community, and (b) to place these struggles within the context of "abuse as a lived experience" (p. 1). The analysis is guided by the contextual constructivism approach in social problems sociology, which Mann characterizes as combining postmodern insights about the historical and contingent nature of truth with positivist contentions about empirically accessible social reality.
Keywords
- Women's shelters,
- Social problems
Disciplines
Publication Date
November 1, 2001
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 1999-2018 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Citation Information
Kristin L. Anderson. "Who Owns Domestic Abuse?: The Local Politics of a Social Problem, by Ruth M. Mann" Journal of Marriage and Family Vol. 63 Iss. 4 (2001) p. 1204 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kristin_anderson/21/