Title:
Ordinary violence : everyday assaults against women worldwide / Mary White Stewart, PhD
Author:
Stewart, Mary White, 1945-
Publication Information:
Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2014]
©2014
Call Number:
HV6250.4 .W65 S79 2014
Abstract:
In this eye-opening study, the author asserts that institutionalized definitions of masculinity and femininity, along with the social and economic inequality among the sexes, help perpetuate the daily and deadly violence against women all across the world. This second edition of a classic work examines the latest discussions on gender relations, including the current debate over whether prostitution and pornography should be deemed inherently violent and the role of western countries in the global response to violence against women.
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
9781440829376
Physical Description:
x, 488 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Lenses on violence: seeing assaults against women -- Cultural support for violence against women -- Construction of violence against women as a social problem in the United States -- Just tryin' to make a livin' -- Real victims, reasonableness, and rape -- Corporate violence against women -- Trafficking -- Traversing Global borders for sex -- Military violence against women in Historical perspective -- It's just a different culture --- Conclusion -- Index.
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