Power and the Self (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521808392)

This edited volume deals with an important but neglected topic--the ways in which power is experienced by individuals, as agents as well as objects of the exercise of power. Each contributor presents a series of case studies drawn from a variety of cultural contexts. These include a chapter on the treatment of patients in American nursing homes, the plight of immigrant Turkish women in the Netherlands, and one contribution that relates theories about the capacity to commit genocidal violence to "everyday forms of violence".

Author: Jeannette Marie Mageo
ISBN-10: 0521808391
ISBN-13: 9780521808392
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2002
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d