Women, Violence and Social Change

2003-12-16 Medical

Author : R. Emerson Dobash
Release : 2003-12-16
Genre : Medical
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Book Rating : 451/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Women, Violence and Social Change written by R. Emerson Dobash. This book was released on 2003-12-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Violence and Social Change demonstrates how refuges and shelters stand as the core of the battered women's movement, providing a basis for pragmatic support, political action and radical renewal. From this base movements in Britain and the United States have challenged the police, courts and social services to provide greater assistance to women. The book provides important evidence on the way social movements can successfully challenge institutions of the State as well as salutatory lessons on the nature of diverted and thwarted struggle. Throughout the book the Dobashes' years of researching violence against women is illustrated in the depth of their analysis. They maintain the tradition established in their first book, Violence Against Wives, which was widely accalimed.

Social Change, Gender and Violence

2013-04-17 Social Science

Author : V. Nikolic-Ristanovic
Release : 2013-04-17
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Social Change, Gender and Violence written by V. Nikolic-Ristanovic. This book was released on 2013-04-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on large research material collected in Hungary, Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria Social change, Gender and Violence is the book which explores the impact of transition from communism and war on everyday life of women and men, as well as the way how everyday life and gender related changes affect women's vulnerability to domestic violence and trafficking in women. The book also explores the impact of micro level changes on development of civil society, women's movement, and legal and policy changes regarding violence against women. This is a unique book, which tries to look at violence against women as connected to oppression of both women and men. It argues that violence against women in post-communist and war affected societies is significantly connected to the increase of social stratification, economic hardship, unemployment, instability, uncertainty and related social stresses, changes in gender identity and structural inequalities brought by new world order. Using largely accounts of more than hundred interviewed people, the author shows vividly how, in post-communist societies, the contradictions of capitalism are interlaced with the mostly negative relics of communism. Moreover, the book shows how contradictory processes in post-communist societies have led to a rather paradoxical result: political pluralism and a capitalist economic system generated both violence against women and a women's movement, albeit not the conditions for a reduction of violence.

Social Change, Gender and Violence

2014-01-15

Author : Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic
Release : 2014-01-15
Genre :
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Vigilante Gender Violence

2020-09-23 Social Science

Author : Rebecca Álvarez
Release : 2020-09-23
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 131/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Vigilante Gender Violence written by Rebecca Álvarez. This book was released on 2020-09-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, mob attacks on women by men have drawn public attention to an emerging social phenomenon. This book draws upon concepts from critical race theory and sociocultural evolutionary theory to examine this specific form of gender violence, which takes place outside the law and is a vigilante form of enforcing traditional gender norms. The author positions vigilante gender violence as a global issue produced during specific periods of sociocultural change in conditions marked by intensified social stratification. The catalyst for vigilante gender violence is the formal state’s breaching of the "gender bargain," the tacit psychological wage even non-elite men earn by at least not being female. When the state threatens to end the gender bargain by promoting women’s rights, the die is cast for low-status men to enforce this bargain themselves in mob attacks against women who are perceived to be violating the patriarchal order. Seen through independent case studies in different national settings, this book provides empirical evidence that demonstrates the existence of vigilante gender violence in times when societies are shifting from one phase to another and the social hierarchies present within are disrupted. With greater understanding of when and how to predict the occurrence of this phenomenon, the author posits notable ways to prevent it from happening altogether.

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