The Challenges of Vulnerability: In Search of Strategies for a Less Vulnerable Social Life

by Barbara A. Misztal

Book Overview

Proposing an aggregative conception of vulnerability, this book provides a new framework for understanding individual experience of, and resilience to, vulnerability and promotes the need to find remedies for exposure to involuntary dependence, the unsecured future and the painful past.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349308366
• ISBN13: 9781349308361
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"