Sally Engle Merry

Gender Violence (eBook, ePUB)

A Cultural Perspective

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Taking an anthropological perspective, this comprehensive book offers a highly readable and concise overview of what constitutes gender violence, its social context, and important directions in intervention and reform. * Uses stories, personal accounts, case studies and a global perspective to provide a vivid and engaging portrait of forms of violence in gendered relationships * Extensively covers many forms of gender violence including domestic violence, rape, murder, wartime sexual assault, prison and police violence, female genital cutting, dowry murders, female infanticide, "honor" killings, and sex trafficking * Examines major approaches to diminishing gender violence such as criminalization, batterer retraining programs, and human rights interventions * Highlights the role of social movements in defining the problem and mobilizing reforms in the US and internationally

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444357141
• Artikelnr.: 38309720

Autorenporträt

Sally Engle Merry is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Law and Society Program at New York University. Her recent books include Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice (2006), and The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law between the Local and the Global, (co-edited with Mark Goodale; 2007). She is past president of the Law and Society Association and the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vi
1 Introduction 1
2 Gender Violence and Social Movements 25
3 Punishment, Safety, and Reform: Interventions in Domestic Violence 48
4 Gender Violence as a Human Rights Violation 77
5 Poverty, Racism, and Migration 102
6 Violent "Cultural" Practices in the Family 127
7 Women and Armed Confl ict 156
8 Conclusions 179
References 187
Index 207

Rezensionen

This acute analysis raises a troubling paradox: neither the growingawareness of gender violence, nor the activism directed toward ithave lessened its incidence. If anything can make a difference,however, this book will.
-Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago

Gender Violence skillfully charts a tempered course through someof the most charged and globally relevant issues today. Sally Merrydraws on her extensive and long-term research both to provide aprimer for neophytes in how to think about gender violence and asophisticated analysis of the structural conditions that unevenlydistribute those subject to it. With critical care, she adheres tothe complex and ambiguous social, personal, and politicalpredicaments that foster its occlusion while addressing howactivism has shaped the changing terms in which it is made visible,confronted, and understood.
-Ann Laura Stoler, The New School