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By drawing on a range of theoretical traditions emerging from feminism, criminology, and sociology,
Women and Gendered Violence in Canada significantly expands the conversation on violence against women.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Part A: Contextualizing Gendered Violence in Canada
Introduction: Expanding the Lens on Gendered Violence
1. An Intersectional Lens on Gendered Violence
2. Situating Canadian Women: Socio-Economic Locations
3. Regulatory Discourses and Representation: How Women Are "Known"
Part B: Interpersonal Violence
4. Everyday Intrusions on the Street, on Campus, and Online
5. Sexual Assault: Laws, Scripts, and Victim Blaming
6. Intimate Partner Violence: Brutish Husbands and Passive Wives
Part C: Workplace Violence
7. Not "Just a Joke": Sexual Harassment, Bullying, and Microagressions in the Workplace
8. Just Part of the Job? Predatory, Situational, and Slow Violence at Work
9. Invisibilized Migrant Women: Over-Regulated and Under-Protected Workers from the Global South
Part D: Structural Violence
10. Moral Regulation, Discipline, and the Beauty Industrial Complex
11. State Violence: Women and the Criminal Justice System
12. Colonial Violence against Indigenous Women
Conclusion: "No Free Lunch": Costs and Consequences of Gendered Violence in Canada and Globally
Appendix 1: Works Cited
Appendix 2: Glossary
About the author
By Chris Bruckert and Tuulia Law
Summary
By drawing on a range of theoretical traditions emerging from feminism, criminology, and sociology, Women and Gendered Violence in Canada significantly expands the conversation on violence against women.
