Applying anthropology to gender-based violence : global responses, local practices / / edited by Jennifer R. Wies and Hillary J. Haldane

• Pubblicazione: Lanham [Maryland] : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (228 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.6
• Soggetto topico: Violence; Women - Violence against; Abused women; Family violence
• Persona (resp. second.): WiesJennifer R.; HaldaneHillary J.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Return to the local : lessons for global change / Jennifer R. Wies and Hillary J. Haldane -- Domestic violence, embodiment, and women's lives in northern Vietnam / Lynn Kwiatkowski -- Bureaucratic bindings : refugee resettlement and intimate partner abuse / Elizabeth Wirtz -- Munted : rebuilding community after disaster / Hillary J. Haldane -- Gender-based violence and the state in Guatemala's genocide and beyond / M. Gabriela Torres -- Prostitution diversion programs structural violence / Yasmina Katsulis -- Sex trafficking of native peoples : history, race, and law / April D.J. Petillo -- Pa manyen fanm nan konsa : understanding violence against women after Haiti's earthquake / Mark Schuller -- Campus sexual violence policies and practices : a holistic and historical approach to research and practice / Jennifer R. Wies -- "I'm a real father now!" : using applied anthropology to promote positive masculinities to reduce family violence in northern Uganda / Rebecka Lundgren and Kimberly Ashburn -- Employing scholar-activist anthropology to counter gender-based violence in Belize / Melissa Beske -- Intimate partner violence, social change, and scholar-activism in coastal Ecuador / Karin Friederic.
• Sommario/riassunto: Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence emphasizes the strength of an applied anthropology and ethnographic approach to ending gender-based violence worldwide. This book sets an activist and engaged agenda for scholars and students to follow as they work to blend passion, theory, and methods in their efforts to end violence.
• Titolo autorizzato: Applying anthropology to gender-based violence
• ISBN: 1-4985-0904-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798069603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II