Gender Violence (Second Edition): Interdisciplinary Perspectives
From the murder of schoolgirls in a rural Amish community to the widespread rape of women in the Sudan to sexual predators on the Internet, this volume explores the persistent, pervasive phenomenon of gendered violence in the United States and around the world.\ In the fully revised second edition of this path-breaking anthology, the editors bring together emerging scholarship from feminist, post-modern, and queer theory with classic articles and central authors in the fields of gender,...
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From the murder of schoolgirls in a rural Amish community to the widespread rape of women in the Sudan to sexual predators on the Internet, this volume explores the persistent, pervasive phenomenon of gendered violence in the United States and around the world.In the fully revised second edition of this path-breaking anthology, the editors bring together emerging scholarship from feminist, post-modern, and queer theory with classic articles and central authors in the fields of gender, sexuality and violence. This edition features a new comprehensive introduction, revised section introductions, and eighteen new selections, including original articles on sex trafficking, masculinity and terrorism, and community responses to gender violence. Other topics represented in this volume include sexual harassment and violence in schools and workplaces, child abuse, intimate partner violence, and pornography.Innovative theoretical and empirical articles written by scholars from fields such as law, history, and the social sciences appear alongside solution-focused pieces developed by activists, academics, and poets committed to creating a non-violent world.
Preface: Conceptualizing Gender ViolenceSect. 1The Roots of Male Violence against Women3"Visit from the Footbinder"101The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State112The Construction of Masculinity and the Triad of Men's Violence303The Socio-Cultural Context of Rape: A Cross-Cultural Study52Sect. 2Gender Violence in the United States67"Need: A Chorale for Black Woman Voices"744Sexual Coercion in American Life805Varieties of "Real Men"926Sexual Terrorism110Sect. 1Sexual Harassment131"Anatomy Lesson"1387Obscene and Threatening Telephone Calls to Women: Data from a Canadian National Survey1398Dames at Sea: Life in the Naval Academy1469Changed Women and Changed Organizations: Consequences of and Coping with Sexual Harassment15110The Victimizations of Women165Sect. 2Rape173"The Rape"18211A Feminist Redefinition of Rape and Sexual Assault: Historical Foundations and Change18412Undeclared War: African-American Women Writers Explicating Rape19413Raped: A Male Survivor Breaks His Silence20914Subcultural Theory of Rape Revisited21515The Global Health Burden of Rape223Sect. 3Battering in Intimate Relationships243"To Judge Faolain, Dead Long Enough: A Summons"25216Nothing New under the Sun: Spouse Abuse in Colonial America25417Violence against Women26618Violence in Intimate Relationships: A Feminist Perspective27919Violence in Lesbian and Gay Relationships28520Violence, Gender, and Elder Abuse: Toward a Feminist Analysis and Practice294Sect. 4Children and Gender Violence305"The Second Photograph"31321Family Violence, Feminism, and Social Control31422Who Stole Incest?33123Child Sexual Abuse and the Regulation of Women: Variations on a Theme33624Definition and Scope of the Problem352Sect. 1Pornography and Violence: A Contested Social Problem365"Philadelphia Story: September 1987"37325The Female Nude: Pornography, Art, and Sexuality37426Conflicting Ideologies and the Politics of Pornography38327Pornography and Black Women's Bodies39528Pornography, Civil Rights, and Speech40029Pornography and Violence: What the "Experts" Really Say414Sect. 2Changing Our Minds: Toward Nonviolence in Gender Relations42330Beyond the Masculine Mystique42831Violence, Gender, and Social Change43532Violence against Women or Family Violence? Current Debates and Future Directions44333Pornography and the Alienation of Male Sexuality45434The Reality of Linguistic Violence against Women46735Action474Bibliography483Index523
\ From the Publisher“This collection provides the most insightful and influential analyses from the last two decades showing how violence against women and children is all too-well integrated into global politics and economics.”\ -Sandra Harding,editor of The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader\ “This is an extraordinary interdisciplinary volume. It is comprehensive both in terms of the subjects that it includes as well as the type of articles, essays and the range of contributors. Gender Violence makes a very significant contribution to the literature on violence against women.”\ -Beth Richie,author of Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered, Black Women\ \ \
