Violence Against Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Violence Against Women write by Pauline B. Bart. This book was released on 1993. Violence Against Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Violence against women permeates our society at every level, in every setting. Murder, rape, intimidation, pornography, workplace harassment, incest are all part of a general belief built into the roots of patriarchal society: Women are proper targets of male violence. The chapters in this book, contributed by some of the most prolific contemporary writers on women's issues, explore this culture of violence and oppression, examining its ideological underpinnings and its structural supports in the social, political and legal systems that protect the violent by blaming the victim.
Understanding Violence Against Women
Understanding Violence Against Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Violence Against Women write by National Research Council. This book was released on 1996-06-07. Understanding Violence Against Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Violence against women is one factor in the growing wave of alarm about violence in American society. High-profile cases such as the O.J. Simpson trial call attention to the thousands of lesser-known but no less tragic situations in which women's lives are shattered by beatings or sexual assault. The search for solutions has highlighted not only what we know about violence against women but also what we do not know. How can we achieve the best understanding of this problem and its complex ramifications? What research efforts will yield the greatest benefit? What are the questions that must be answered? Understanding Violence Against Women presents a comprehensive overview of current knowledge and identifies four areas with the greatest potential return from a research investment by increasing the understanding of and responding to domestic violence and rape: What interventions are designed to do, whom they are reaching, and how to reach the many victims who do not seek help. Factors that put people at risk of violence and that precipitate violence, including characteristics of offenders. The scope of domestic violence and sexual assault in America and its conequences to individuals, families, and society, including costs. How to structure the study of violence against women to yield more useful knowledge. Despite the news coverage and talk shows, the real fundamental nature of violence against women remains unexplored and often misunderstood. Understanding Violence Against Women provides direction for increasing knowledge that can help ameliorate this national problem.
On Violence and On Violence Against Women
On Violence and On Violence Against Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Violence and On Violence Against Women write by Jacqueline Rose. This book was released on 2021-05-18. On Violence and On Violence Against Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Sourcebook on Violence Against Women
Sourcebook on Violence Against Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sourcebook on Violence Against Women write by Claire M. Renzetti. This book was released on 2017-01-30. Sourcebook on Violence Against Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Third Edition of this comprehensive volume covers the current state of research, theory, prevention, and intervention regarding violence against women. The book’s 15 chapters are divided into three parts: theoretical and methodological issues in researching violence against women; types of violence against women; and, new to this edition, programs that work. Featuring new chapters, pedagogy, sections on controversies in the field, and autobiographical essays by leaders in grassroots anti-violence work, the Third Edition has been designed to encourage discussion and debate, to address issues of diversity and cultural contexts, and to examine inequalities of race and ethnicity, social class, physical ability, sexual orientation, and geographic location.
Teaching to Transcend
Teaching to Transcend - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teaching to Transcend write by Cheryl L. Sattler. This book was released on 2000-07-27. Teaching to Transcend available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines teaching and learning in shelters for battered women.
