Rethinking violence against women

Based on workshops sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, recurrent themes in this study of violence against women include: authority, women as sexual property, the assymetry of women, socialisation, patterns and deviations of victims and offenders, personal accounts and socio-cultural...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (-)
Otros Autores: Dobash, R. Emerson (-), Dobash, Russell
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications c1998.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:SAGE Series on Violence against Women
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798333206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 - Cross-Border Encounters: Challenges and Opportunities; Chapter 2 - Rethinking Survey Research on Violence Against Women; Chapter 3 - Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls: An Approach to an International Overview; Chapter 4 - Violence Embodied? Circumcision, Gender Politics,and Cultural Aesthetics; Chapter 5 - Violence Against Women in Societies Under Stress; Chapter 6 - Violent Men and Violent Contexts; Chapter 7 - The Hand That Strikes and Comforts: Gender Construction and the Tension between Body and Symbol
  • Chapter 8 - Lethal and Nonlethal Violence Against Wives and the Evolutionary Psychology of Male Sexual ProprietarinessReferences; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors