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Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective
Sally Engle Merry
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Description for Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective
Paperback. Gendered Violence: A Cultural Perspective challenges readers to confront gender violence as a social problem deeply embedded in inequalities of class, race, and nation as well as gender. It offers a highly readable and clear overview of what constitutes gender violence, its social context, and its history as a public issue. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Introduction to Engaged Anthropology Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 172 x 12. Weight in Grams: 400.
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.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Wiley-Blackwell Introduction to Engaged Anthropology Series
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9780631223597
SKU
V9780631223597
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99-50
About Sally Engle Merry
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective
This acute analysis raises a troubling paradox: neither the growing awareness of gender violence, nor the activism directed toward it have 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 some of the most charged and globally relevant issues today. ... Read more