Rethinking Violence Against Women, Vol. 9
This cutting-edge volume advances theories, methodologies and policy analyses relating to various forms of violence against women. Topics covered include: the nature, importance and variety of cultural contexts in which violence occurs, is reproduced and may be challenged or changed; the nature and variety of sexualized violence; and a range of theoretical perspectives on perpetrators of violence.\ Taking an interdisciplinary focus on issues that affect community and state responses, the book...
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Based on a series of international workshops sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundations, this cutting-edge volume advances theories, methodologies, and policy analyses relating to various forms of violence against women. Under the skillful editorship of Rebecca Emerson and Russell P. Dobash, Rethinking Violence Against Women is the joint effort of recognized anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, and historians in the field. Divided in three parts, this text takes a comprehensive examination of the following topics: + Booknews Papers from two workshops sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, held in 1993 and 1995, advance theories, methodologies, and policy analyses relating to various forms of violence against women. Contributors include anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, and historians, examining cultural contexts in which violence occurs, the nature of sexualized violence, and theoretical perspectives on perpetrators of violence. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Acknowledgments1Cross-Border Encounters: Challenges and Opportunities12Rethinking Survey Research on Violence Against Women233Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls: An Approach to an International Overview534Violence Embodied? Circumcision, Gender Politics, and Cultural Aesthetics775Violence Against Women in Societies Under Stress1116Violent Men and Violent Contexts1417The Hand That Strikes and Comforts: Gender Construction and the Tension Between Body and Symbol1698Lethal and Nonlethal Violence Against Wives and the Evolutionary Psychology of Male Sexual Proprietariness199References231Index251About the Editors271About the Contributors273
\ BooknewsPapers from two workshops sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, held in 1993 and 1995, advance theories, methodologies, and policy analyses relating to various forms of violence against women. Contributors include anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, and historians, examining cultural contexts in which violence occurs, the nature of sexualized violence, and theoretical perspectives on perpetrators of violence. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
