Gender, Violence and the Social Order

by Mooney, Jayne

• ISBN13: 9780312231576
• ISBN10: 0312231571
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This is an exciting and innovative book which provides a thorough introduction to contemporary social theory by examining the way in which the widespread existence of violence against women is explained. A wide range of theories from liberalism to evolutionary psychology are considered culminating in the development of a distinctive feminist realist position. The theories discussed are tested against a large scale survey, the findings of which challenge many conventional wisdoms as to the patterning of violence in contemporary society.

Author Biography

Jayne Mooney is Senior Lecturer at the Center for Criminology at Middlesex University.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(10)
Part I	11	(128)
Classicist Criminology: Liberal Explanations of Violence	13	(22)
Positivism: Scientific Explanations of Violence	35	(31)
Violence and the Three Feminisms	66	(43)
Feminist: Realism: a Synthesis	109	(30)
Part II	139	(52)
Researching Violence	141	(13)
Revealing the Hidden Figure	154	(26)
What Do the Men Say? Male Attitudes to Domestic Violence	180	(11)
Part III	191	(22)
Violence, Space and Gender: Testing the Theories	193	(20)
Part IV	213	(14)
Tackling Domestic Violence: From Theory to Policy	215	(12)
Notes	227	(8)
References	235	(19)
Index	254