Gendered Violence, Abuse and Mental Health in Everyday Lives: Beyond Trauma offers new insights into the social dimensions of emotional distress in abuse-relate

The challenge of violence against women should be recognised as an issue for the state, citizenship and the whole community. This book examines how responses by

This unique book offers an innovative feminist critique of attachment theory that offers an alternative understanding of relationships between women and their b

This book argues that while notions of trauma in mental health hold promise for the advancement of women’s rights, the mainstreaming of trauma treatments and

This cross-disciplinary volume examines and reframes trauma as a social and political issue in the context of wider society, critiquing the widely accepted path