Rethinking violence against women (Sage Publications, 1998)
"Based on a series of international workshops sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation"--Page [4] cover. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index
Cross-border encounters: challenges and opportunities / Rebecca Emerson Dobash and Russell P. Dobash -- Rethinking survey research on violence against women / Holly Johnson -- Sexual violence against women and girls: an approach to an international overview / Liz Kelly and Jill Radford -- Violence embodied? Circumcision, gender politics, and cultural aesthetics / Janice Boddy -- Violence against women in societies under stress / Monica McWilliams -- Violent men and violent contexts / Rebecca Emerson Dobash and Russell P. Dobash -- The hand that strikes and comforts: gender construction and the tension between body and symbol / Eva Lundgren -- Lethal and nonlethal violence against wives and the evolutionary psychology of male sexual proprietariness / Margo Wilson and Martin Daly
Based on a series of international workshops sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, this volume advances theories, methodologies, and policy analyses relating to various forms of violence against women. Divided into three parts, this text comprehensively examines the following topics: 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