Understanding Violence Against Women [1 ed.] 9780309588812, 9780309054256

Violence against women is one factor in the growing wave of alarm about violence in American society. High-profile cases

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Understanding Violence Against Women [1 ed.]
9780309588812, 9780309054256

Research and advocacy aimed at understanding and ending violence against women had its beginning in the early 1970s, eme

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This is the first anthology to take a theoretical look at violence against women. Each essay shows how philosophy provid

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In Violence Against Women, award-winning author Walter S. DeKeseredy offers a passionate but well-documented sociologica

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A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic. Why has violence

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Across the globe, acts of violence against women produce more deaths, disability, and mutilation than cancer, malaria, a

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In Violence Against Women, award-winning author Walter S. DeKeseredy offers a passionate but well-documented sociologica

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This volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organisations working in diverse r

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Women have made significant inroads into political life in recent years, but in many parts of the world, their increased

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This book is born of a contradiction: on the one hand, there has been a genuine advance in the awareness of violence aga

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Annually, approximately 66,000 women are violently killed in countries around the world. While historically these crimes

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