Rethinking Violence Against Women

This cutting-edge volume advances theories, methodologies and policy analyses relating to various forms of violence against women. Topics covered include: the nature, importance and variety of cultural contexts in which violence occurs, is reproduced and may be challenged or changed; the nature and variety of sexualized violence; and a range of theoretical perspectives on perpetrators of violence.

Taking an interdisciplinary focus on issues that affect community and state responses, the book includes individual accounts, and incorporates themes related to authority, sexual proprietariness, asymmetry of violence, socialization, patterns and deviations of victims and offenders, and social and cultural contexts.

Riassunto

This cutting-edge volume advances theories, methodologies and policy analyses relating to various forms of violence against women. Topics covered include: the nature, importance and variety of cultural contexts in which violence occurs, is reproduced and may be challenged or changed; the nature and variety of sexualized violence; and a range of theoretical perspectives on perpetrators of violence.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: R. Emerson Dobash, R.emerson Dobash Dobash, Rebeca Emerson Dobash, Rebecca Emerson Dobash Dobash, Russell Dobash, DOBASH R EMERSON DOBASH RUSSELL
• Con la collaborazione di: Rebecca Emerson Dobash (Editore), Russell P. Dobash (Editore)
• Editore: Sage Publications Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 27.10.1998
• EAN: 9780761911869
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-1186-9
• Pagine: 288
• Serie: Sage Series on Violence Agains; Sage Series on Violence Against Women; SAGE Series on Violence against Women; Sage Violence Against Women
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche