Taking back our lives : a call to action for the feminist movement / / Ann Russo

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910171002803321
• Autore: Russo Ann <1957->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York ; ; London, : Routledge, 2001
• ISBN: 1-135-95824-6; 0-203-90330-7; 0-585-45198-2; 1-280-35513-1; 1-135-95825-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.82/92/0973
• Soggetti: Abused women - United States; Sexual abuse victims - United States; Feminism - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-254) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgments; If Not Now, When? Contemporary Feminist Movement to End Violence Against Women; Lesbians, Prostitutes, and Murder: Deconstructing Media Distortions; Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Battering: Homophobia, Heterosexism, and Violence; Pornography's Stories: Eroticizing Inequality, Hierarchy, and Historical Atrocity; Lesbian Porn Stories: Rebellion and/or Resistance?; Sexual Conflicts and Contradictions: Violence, Desire, Autonomy, Freedom; Necessary Voices: A Battered Lesbian Fights for Recognition; White Men Can't Kill?: Racial Profiling and Men's Intimate Violence Against WomenTaking Back Our Lives: Expanding Campus Efforts to End Sexual Violence; The Struggle for Integrity in an Unjust World: Feminist Resistance Through Storytelling; A Feminist Practice of Antiracism: Strategies to Recognize and Disrupt White Privilege and Power; Notes; Permissions; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Russo provides a multi-oppression approach to understanding the violence that is done to women, incorporating issues of gender, race, ; class and sexuality in her analysis.