| Description |
xii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Sage series on violence against women ; vol.4 |
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Sage series on violence against women ; vol.4
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| Contents |
1. Australian History, Policy, and Denial: Violence Against Women / Sandy Cook and Judith Bessant -- 2. Violence and Women With Disabilities: Silence and Paradox / Lesley Chenoweth -- 3. Mother/Daughter Rape: A Challenge for Feminism / Lee FitzRoy -- 4. (Hetero)sexed Hostility and Violence Toward Lesbians / Gail Mason -- 5. Aboriginality and Lawyering: Problems of Justice for Aboriginal Defendants in Partner Homicide Cases / Linda Hancock -- 6. Judicial Bias: Confronting Prejudice in the Courtroom / Jocelynne A. Scutt -- 7. Shame, Defiance, and Violence Against Women: A Critical Analysis of "Communitarian" Conferencing / Julie Stubbs -- 8. Rethinking Theories of Victimology: Men's Violence Against Women / Therese McCarthy -- 9. Violence Against Indigenous Women: Public and Private Dimensions / Melissa Lucashenko -- 10. Women, War, and the Violence of History: An Australian Perspective / Susanne Davies -- 11. Men's Violence in the News: The War Against Women / Adrian Howe |
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12. The Violence of Displacement: The Problematics of Survival for Homeless Young Women / Suzanne E. Hatty -- 13. Governing Sexual Violence: Criminalization and Citizenship / Kerry Carrington |
| Summary |
The issue of violence against women in countries around the world continues to receive increasing public, media, political, and scholarly attention. While research findings in Women's Encounters With Violence are framed within a specific perspective, they extend beyond national boundaries to provide a critical analysis needed to change political and social policies worldwide. Editors Sandy Cook and Judith Bessant introduce the history of violence in Australia and examine how culturally embedded laws and customs have acted like locks on women's oppression. In addition to culture-specific topics such as the injustices suffered by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, the contributors also explore issues that cross cultural boundaries, including violence against women with disabilities, homeless women, and lesbians. Promoting a crucial international context to this pervasive problem, Women's Encounters With Violence proves an excellent supplemental text for students as well as an accessible and timely resource for a broad range of professionals and academics in counseling, social work, health care, law, criminal justice, sociology, public policy, and women's studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography and index |
| Subject |
Abused women -- Australia.
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Sex discrimination against women -- Australia.
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Women -- Abuse of -- Australia.
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Violence -- Australia.
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Women -- Crimes against -- Australia.
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| Author |
Bessant, Judith.
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Cook, Sandy.
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| LC no. |
97004601 |
| ISBN |
076190431X |
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0761904328 (paperback) |
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