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...

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1. Verfasser: Kolb, Kenneth H., 1975-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 223 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-211) and index.
ISBN:9780520958661
0520958667
9781306878357
1306878357
0520282728
9780520282728

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