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9780761911876

Rethinking Violence Against Women

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  • ISBN13:

    9780761911876

  • ISBN10:

    0761911871

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-09-11
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

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This cutting-edge volume advances theories, methodologies and policy analyses relating to various forms of violence against women. Topics covered include: the nature, importance and variety of cultural contexts in which violence occurs, is reproduced and may be challenged or changed; the nature and variety of sexualized violence; and a range of theoretical perspectives on perpetrators of violence.Taking an interdisciplinary focus on issues that affect community and state responses, the book includes individual accounts, and incorporates themes related to authority, sexual proprietariness, asymmetry of violence, socialization, patterns and deviations of victims and offenders, and social and cultural contexts.

Table of Contents

Cross-Border Encounters
Challenges and Opportunities - H Johnson
Rethinking Survey Research on Violence against Women - L Kelly and J Radford
Sexual Violence against Women and Girls
An Approach to an International Overview - J Boddy
Violence Embodied
Circumcision, Gender Politics and Cultural Aesthetics - M McWilliams
Violence against Women in Societies under Stress - R E Dobash and R P Dobash
Violent Men and Violent Contexts - E Lundgren
The Hand That Strikes and Comforts
Gender Construction and the Tension between Body and Symbol - M Wilson and M Daly
Lethal and Non-Lethal Violence against Wives and the Evolutionary Psychology of Male Sexual Proprietariness

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