Gender and interpersonal violence: language, action and representation

Drawing on research from a variety of disciplines, this edited collection challenges conventional understandings of gendered interpersonal violence, and identifies emerging sites and forms of resistance to it. ÍNDICE: - INTRODUCTION; K. Throsby and F. Alexander - PART I: LIVED EXPERIENCE - A Soldier and a Woman: Women, Violence and Clandestine Operations During the Second World War; J. Pattinson - 'I Still Sort of Flounder Around in a Sea of Non-language': The Constraints of Language and Labels in Women's Accounts of Woman-to Woman Partner Abuse; R. Barnes - Cultural Transformations and Gender Violence: South Asian Women's Experiences of Sexual Violence and FamilialDynamics; - B. Ahmed, P. Reavey and A. Majumdar - A New Sexual Story: Trafficking, Immigration and Asylum: The Converging of Discourses; A. Jobe - 'That's a Bit Drastic': Risk and Blame in Accounts of Obesity Surgery; K. Throsby - The Promise of Understanding: Sex, Violence, Trauma and the Body; J. Kilby - PART II: REPRESENTATION - 'It's Wrong for a Boy to Hit a Girl because the Girl Might Cry': Investigating Primary School Children's Attitudes Towards Violence Against Women; N. Lombard - Images of Abusers: Stranger-Danger, the Media and the Social Currency of

• ISBN: 978-0-230-57401-4
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 24/10/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés