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

• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, c1998
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 276 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.88/082
• Soggetto topico: Women - Crimes against; Sexual harassment of women; Family violence; Wife abuse; Women - Social conditions
• Altri autori: DobashR. Emerson DobashRussell
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking violence against women
• ISBN: 1-322-42083-1; 0-7619-1186-3; 1-4522-5055-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808818903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SAGE Series on Violence against Women