Mary White Stewart

Ordinary Violence (eBook, ePUB)

Everyday Assaults against Women Worldwide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Addresses the many forms of global violence against women and shows how the psychology of individuals, institutions, and societies perpetuate the oppression of women.

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216125365
• Artikelnr.: 68354049

Autorenporträt

Mary White Stewart, PhD, is professor of sociology and director of the School of Social Research and Justice Studies at the University of Nevada.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
ONE: Introduction
TWO: Lenses on Violence: Seeing Assaults against Women
THREE: Cultural Support for Violence against Women
FOUR: The Construction of Violence against Women as a Social Problem in the
United States
FIVE: Just Tryin' to Make a Livin'
SIX: Real Victims, Reasonableness, and Rape
SEVEN: Corporate Violence against Women
EIGHT: Trafficking
NINE: Traversing Global Borders for Sex
TEN: Military Violence against Women in Historical Perspective
ELEVEN: It's Just a Different Culture
TWELVE: Conclusion
Index