No Safe Haven: Male Violence Against Women at Home, at Work, and in the Community - Hardcover

Male violence against women is a major source of fear, distress, and i njury for women crossing lines of ethnicity, economic status, sexual o rientation, and age. Indeed, despite the underreporting of statistics, acts of violence are everyday events in women's lives, and these acts exert insidious influence even on those individuals who are not direc t targets. No Safe Haven offers an in-depth systematic examination of this problem by focusing on the physical abuse, sexual assault and se xual harassment that many women endure at home, at work, at school, an d in the community. Leading experts review the literature on the preva lence and the physical and psychological effects of each form of viole nce as well as the literature on prevention and treatment.