Merry Gender Violence

A Cultural Perspective
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5714-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Introductions to Engaged Anthropology

Taking an anthropological perspective, this comprehensive bookoffers a highly readable and concise overview of what constitutesgender violence, its social context, and important directions inintervention and reform.
* Uses stories, personal accounts, case studies and a globalperspective to provide a vivid and engaging portrait of forms ofviolence in gendered relationships
* Extensively covers many forms of gender violence includingdomestic violence, rape, murder, wartime sexual assault, prison andpolice violence, female genital cutting, dowry murders, femaleinfanticide, "honor" killings, and sex trafficking
* Examines major approaches to diminishing gender violence suchas criminalization, batterer retraining programs, and human rightsinterventions
* Highlights the role of social movements in defining the problemand mobilizing reforms in the US and internationally

Autoren/Hrsg.

Merry, Sally Engle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vi
1 Introduction 1
2 Gender Violence and Social Movements 25
3 Punishment, Safety, and Reform: Interventions in DomesticViolence 48
4 Gender Violence as a Human Rights Violation 77
5 Poverty, Racism, and Migration 102
6 Violent "Cultural" Practices in the Family 127
7 Women and Armed Confl ict 156
8 Conclusions 179
References 187
Index 207

Über Autor(innen)

Sally Engle Merry is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Law and Society Program at New York University. Her recent books include Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice (2006), and The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law between the Local and the Global, (co-edited with Mark Goodale; 2007). She is past president of the Law and Society Association and the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.