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 overviewof what constitutes gender violence, its social context, and its history as apublic issue. Through personal accounts and ethnographic case studies, Sally Engle Merry provides a vivid portrait of many forms of violence in gendered relationships. She also examines major social movements and other efforts to diminish gender violence such as criminalization, batterer retraining programs, and human rights interventions. INDICE: Acknowledgements. Chapter 1. A Cultural Perspective on Gender Violence. Chapter 2. Gender Violence and Social Movements. Chapter 3. Punishment, Safety, and Reform: Interventions in Domestic Violence. Chapter 4. Gender Violence as a Human Rights Violation. Chapter 5. Poverty, Racism, and Migration. Chapter 6. Violent "Cultural" Practices in the Family. Chapter 7. Women and Armed Conflict. Chapter 8. Conclusions. Bibliography. Questions and Video Resources
- ISBN: 978-0-631-22359-7
- Editorial: Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 14/11/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés