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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808818903321

Titolo

Rethinking violence against women / / editors, R. Emerson Dobash, Russell P. Dobash

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, c1998

ISBN

1-322-42083-1

0-7619-1186-3

1-4522-5055-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 276 p.)

Collana

Sage series on violence against women ; ; v. 9

Altri autori (Persone)

DobashR. Emerson

DobashRussell

Disciplina

362.88/082

Soggetti

Women - Crimes against

Sexual harassment of women

Family violence

Wife abuse

Women - Social conditions

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. 231-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 contexts.