Structural violence : hidden brutality in the lives of women / / Joshua M. Price

• Autore: Price Joshua M
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.83
• Soggetto topico: Women - Violence against - United States; Women - Violence against - United States - Prevention
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Power and Control Wheel -- Difficult Maneuvers -- Speech at the Margins -- Homophobia, Structural Violence, and Coalition Building -- Spaces of Judgment and Judgments of Space -- “Why Doesn’t She Just Leave?” -- Tentative Conclusions and Small-Scale Solutions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Gold Medalist, 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women's Studies categoryStructural Violence seeks to redraw the conventional map of violence against women. In order to understand violence as a fundamentally heterogeneous phenomenon, it is essential to go beyond interpersonal partner violence and analyze the workings of institutional and structural violence. Self-help books, some shelters, the courts, federal and state legislation, empirical studies, therapeutic models, and even some mainstream feminist polemics presume that all women face the same kind of violence. This assumption masks violence that does not conform to the imagined norm, such as violence against women who are sex workers, lesbians, experiencing homelessness, and/or undocumented. Joshua M. Price's exploration of these issues is based on several years of research involving participant-observation in domestic violence courts and extensive interviews with activists, advocates, incarcerated women, and women who have faced various forms of violence. Both conceptually and methodologically, the book challenges narrow notions of violence against women and demonstrates implications for judicial intervention and other forms of public involvement.
• Titolo autorizzato: Structural violence
• ISBN: 9781438443454; 1438443455
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910966823503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II