Bonnie (Hrsg.) Clairmont

Sharing Our Stories of Survival

Native Women Surviving Violence

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A general introduction to the social and legal issues involved in acts of violence against Native women, this book's contributors are lawyers, social workers, social scientists, writers, poets, and victims. In the U.S. Native women are more likely than women from any other group to suffer violence, from rape and battery to more subtle forms of abuse, and Sharing Our Stories of Survival explores the causes and consequences of such behavior. The stories and case-studies presented here are often painful and raw, and the statistics are overwhelmingly grim; but a countervailing theme also runs through this extremely informative volume: Many of the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Deer, Sarah (Hrsg.) / Martell, Carrie A (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-7591-1125-7
EAN: 9780759111257
Produktnummer: 2982177
Verlag: Altamira Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.7 cm 557 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 557

Über den Autor

Sarah Deer is staff attorney and Victim Advocacy Legal Specialist for the Tribal Law & Policy Institute in Saint Paul, Minnesota; she is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. Bonnie Clairmont, a citizen of the HoChunk Nation of Wisconsin, works for the Tribal Law & Policy Institute; she has worked for 20 years as a counselor and advocate for victims of sexual and domestic abuse. Carrie Martell is a law student at the University of New Mexico.Maureen L. White Eagle has practiced law in various tribal jurisdictions in North Dakota and Minnesota.