Gender Violence : A Cultural Perspective
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0631223592
ISBN-13
9780631223597
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint
Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 21st, 2008
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
400 grams
Dimensions
24.60 x 17.20 x 1.20 cms
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Gendered Violence: A Cultural Perspective challenges readers to confront gender violence as a social problem deeply embedded in inequalities of class, race, and nation as well as gender. It offers a highly readable and clear overview of what constitutes gender violence, its social context, and its history as a public issue.
Taking an anthropological perspective, this comprehensive book offers a highly readable and concise overview of what constitutes gender violence, its social context, and important directions in intervention and reform. Uses stories, personal accounts, case studies and a global perspective to provide a vivid and engaging portrait of forms of violence in gendered relationshipsExtensively covers many forms of gender violence including domestic violence, rape, murder, wartime sexual assault, prison and police violence, female genital cutting, dowry murders, female infanticide, “honor” killings, and sex traffickingExamines major approaches to diminishing gender violence such as criminalization, batterer retraining programs, and human rights interventionsHighlights the role of social movements in defining the problem and mobilizing reforms in the US and internationally
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