This volume seeks to address issues surrounding violence against women at all levels, from its root causes to the specific needs arising in victims of gendered abuse from a particular social or ethnic group.
This is an international, comparative survey which interviews random samples of women about their experiences with male violence. The authors form a management team for the International Violence Against Women Survey (IVAWS).
Alison Phipps is Director of Gender Studies and Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sussex. ... She previously worked as head ofresearch at the NSPCC, on violence prevention research in the Department of Health and as a ...
This is an edited volume of 12 articles previously published in Social Problems that may be considered among the most influential in the development of the sociological study of violence against women.
Alison Morrison, aged 45. Michelle Grey, aged 42. Carol-Anne Taggart, age unknown. Julie Mercer, aged 47. Sameen Imam, aged 34. Hawa Mohamed Abdullah, aged 40. Sandra Brotherton, aged 60. Nadine Aburas, aged 28.
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, ...
Examines the similarities and differences among many types of violence against women and efforts to stop it.
This is an edited volume of 12 articles previously published in Social Problems that may be considered among the most influential in the development of the sociological study of violence against women.
This book introduces a wide readership to the problem of violence against women and girls (VAWG) identified by social movements, researchers, and policymakers.
"Violence against women undermines women's core fundamental rights such as dignity, access to justice and gender equality. For example, one in three women has experienced physical and/or sexual violence since...
Patients and the public expect physicians to recognize and treat victims of interpersonal trauma. Few clinicians, however, are familiar with how to approach patients about past or current intimate partner...
Violence Against Women: Victims of the System : Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred...
L. P. Gordon. Demographics of Rape Victims The Bureau of Justice Statistics studied completed and attempted rape of a ... rate of rape per 1,000 women , surveyor's estimated that women in the following categories were the most likely to ...
Violence Against Women: The Hidden Health Burden
... Italian Woman,” Business Insider, May 10, 2018. http://www. businessinsider.com/r-pakistan-police-arrest-two-in-suspectedhonor-killing-of-italian-woman-2018-5 Frances Wilson, “School Shootings Are Like Domestic Violence, Amplified ...
Antifeminism and family terrorism: A critical feminist perspective. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Hatt, K., Caputo, T.C., & Perry, B. (1990). Managing consent: Canada's experience with neo-conservatism. Social Justice, 17, 30–48.
This is the first anthology to take a theoretical look at violence against women. Each essay shows how philosophy provides a powerful tool for examining a difficult and deep-rooted social problem.
In Violence Against Women, award-winning author Walter S. DeKeseredy offers a passionate but well-documented sociological overview of a sobering problem.
Chapters include: Is Violence Against Women a Serious Problem? What Causes Violence Against Women? Are Current Criminal Justice Approaches to Domestic Violence Effective? How Can Violence Against Women Be Reduced?
(2006) researched forced marriage and domestic violence among South Asian communities in the Newcastle, Sunderland and South Tyneside areas of North-East England. They interviewed 37 women and 32 men who had experienced a forced, ...