Gender Violence

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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

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Sally Engle Merry

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Anthropologie Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology Social Identity Social Policy & Welfare Social Problems Sociology Soziale Identität Soziale Probleme Soziale u. kulturelle Anthropologie Sozialpolitik u. Wohlfahrt Soziologie

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This acute analysis raises a troubling paradox: neither the growingawareness of gender violence, nor the activism directed toward ithave lessened its incidence. If anything can make a difference,however, this book will. -Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago Gender Violence skillfully charts a tempered course through someof the most charged and globally relevant issues today. Sally Merrydraws on her extensive and long-term research both to provide aprimer for neophytes in how to think about gender violence and asophisticated analysis of the structural conditions that unevenlydistribute those subject to it. With critical care, she adheres tothe complex and ambiguous social, personal, and politicalpredicaments that foster its occlusion while addressing howactivism has shaped the changing terms in which it is made visible,confronted, and understood. -Ann Laura Stoler, The New School
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