Author: M. Cristina AlcaldePublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826517315
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Combating abuse and violence in a South American capital
The Woman in the Violence
Author: M. Cristina AlcaldePublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826517315
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Combating abuse and violence in a South American capital
On Violence and On Violence Against Women
Author: Jacqueline RosePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374715858
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic. Why has violence, and especially violence against women, become so much more prominent and visible across the world? To explore this question, Jacqueline Rose tracks the multiple forms of today’s violence – historic and intimate, public and private – as they spread throughout our social fabric, offering a new, provocative account of violence in our time. From trans rights and #MeToo to the sexual harassment of migrant women, from the trial of Oscar Pistorius to domestic violence in lockdown, from the writing of Roxanne Gay to Hisham Mitar and Han Kang, she casts her net wide. What obscene pleasure in violence do so many male leaders of the Western world unleash in their supporters? Is violence always gendered and if so, always in the same way? What is required of the human mind when it grants itself permission to do violence? On Violence and On Violence Against Women is a timely and urgent agitation against injustice, a challenge to radical feminism and a meaningful call to action.
Indigenous Women and Violence
Author: Lynn StephenPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816539456
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Indigenous Women and Violence offers an intimate view of how settler colonialism and other structural forms of power and inequality created accumulated violences in the lives of Indigenous women. This volume uncovers how these Indigenous women resist violence in Mexico, Central America, and the United States, centering on the topics of femicide, immigration, human rights violations, the criminal justice system, and Indigenous justice. Taking on the issues of our times, Indigenous Women and Violence calls for the deepening of collaborative ethnographies through community engagement and performing research as an embodied experience. This book brings together settler colonialism, feminist ethnography, collaborative and activist ethnography, emotional communities, and standpoint research to look at the links between structural, extreme, and everyday violences across time and space. Indigenous Women and Violence is built on engaging case studies that highlight the individual and collective struggles that Indigenous women face from the racial and gendered oppression that structures their lives. Gendered violence has always been a part of the genocidal and assimilationist projects of settler colonialism, and it remains so today. These structures—and the forms of violence inherent to them—are driving criminalization and victimization of Indigenous men and women, leading to escalating levels of assassination, incarceration, or transnational displacement of Indigenous people, and especially Indigenous women. This volume brings together the potent ethnographic research of eight scholars who have dedicated their careers to illuminating the ways in which Indigenous women have challenged communities, states, legal systems, and social movements to promote gender justice. The chapters in this book are engaged, feminist, collaborative, and activism focused, conveying powerful messages about the resilience and resistance of Indigenous women in the face of violence and systemic oppression. Contributors: R. Aída Hernández-Castillo, Morna Macleod, Mariana Mora, María Teresa Sierra, Shannon Speed, Lynn Stephen, Margo Tamez, Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj
A Woman Like You
Author: Vera AndersonPublisher: Seal Press
ISBN: 9781878067074
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Presents the stories and photographs of women who have been victims of family violence
Structural Violence
Author: Joshua M. PricePublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438443455
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Gold Medalist, 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women's Studies category Structural 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, homeless, 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.
Women and Male Violence
Author: Susan SchechterPublisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896081598
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Takes an in-depth look at battering and the social movement against it. It describes not only the horrifying experiences of victims, but the powerful movement that demands an end to violence against women and permanent changes in the conditions of women's lives.
Women, Policing, and Male Violence (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Jalna HanmerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134100876
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
First published in 1989, this book focuses on the policing of male violence against women. It is an issue that has been criticised substantially in the past, and the book shows how even police themselves have sometimes admitted that women have received inadequate treatment. The book includes contributions from North America, Australia, and Western Europe and looks at different approaches that have been taken by states in intervening into the violence of men against women. Chapters explore the differences and similarities of policing practices in western societies at the time surrounding the book’s original publication.
The Violent Woman
Author: Hilary NeroniPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791483649
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Looks at how violent women characters disrupt cinematic narrative and challenge cultural ideals.
Violence and the Female Imagination
Author: Paula Ruth GilbertPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773577106
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
In the past twenty years Quebec women writers, including Aline Chamberland, Claire Dé, Suzanne Jacob, and Hélène Rioux, have created female characters who are fascinated with bold sexual actions and language, cruelty, and violence, at times culminating in infanticide and serial killing. Paula Ruth Gilbert argues that these Quebec feminist writers are "re-framing" gender. Violence and the Female Imagination explores whether these imagined women are striking out at an external other or harming themselves through acts of self-destruction and depression. Gilbert examines the degree to which women are imitating men in the outward direction of their anger and hostility and suggests that such "tough" women may be mocking men in their "macho" exploits of sexuality and violence. She illustrates the ways in which Quebec female authors are "feminizing" violence or re-envisioning gender in North American culture. Gilbert bridges methodological gaps and integrates history, sociology, literary theory, feminist theory, and other disciplinary approaches to provide a framework for the discussion of important ethical and aesthetic questions.
The Public Nature of Private Violence
Author: Martha Albertson FinemanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136041346
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Explores diverse feminist and legal responses to domestic violence across cultures. Argues that domestic violence must be viewed in its social and cultural context and offers suggestions for those dealing with incidents of abuse.