Why don't you just talk to him? : the politics of domestic abuse / Kathleen R. Arnold.
Calling attention to domestic abuse as a political problem, this book seeks to challenge Enlightenment notions of intimacy that profoundly mistake the nature of control and abuse. In turn, the anti-Enlightenment aspects of intimacy are rooted in tensions and contradictions of American society, which...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
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2015.
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| Online Access: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Summary: | Calling attention to domestic abuse as a political problem, this book seeks to challenge Enlightenment notions of intimacy that profoundly mistake the nature of control and abuse. In turn, the anti-Enlightenment aspects of intimacy are rooted in tensions and contradictions of American society, which often assume that communication and egalitarian practices (such as mediation) preclude destructive tendencies and hostility. The book explores how Enlightenment ideals continue to deny or obscure hierarchy, coercive control, and violence even while they make these dynamics possible. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 019026229X 0190262303 9780190262297 9780190262303 |