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Violence against Women [electronic resource].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Understanding Social Problems: An SSSP Presidential SeriesPublication details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781461646686
  • 1461646685
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Violence against Women.DDC classification:
  • 362.82/92/0973 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6250.4.W65 V5657 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; Introduction: The Emergence of Violence against Women as a Social Problem Claire M. Renzetti and Raquel Kennedy Bergen; Part I Forms of Violence against Women; 1 ""Riding the Bull at Gilley's"": Convicted Rapists Describe the Rewards of Rape Diana Scully and Joseph Marolla; 2 The Myth of Sexual Symmetry in Marital Violence Russell R Dobash, R. Emerson Dobash, Margo Wilson, and Martin Daly; 3 Safe Conduct: Women, Crime, and Self in Public Places Carol Brooks Gardner.
4 On Being Stalked Robert M. Emerson, Kerry O. Ferris, and Carol Brooks Gardner5 The Locker Room and the Dorm Room: Workplace Norms and the Boundaries of Sexual Harassment in Magazine Editing Kirsten Dellinger and Christine L. Williams; Part II Institutional Responses to Violence against Women; 6 Prosecutorial Justifications for Sexual Assault Case Rejection: Guarding the ""Gateway to Justice"" Cassia Spohn, Dawn Beichner, and Erika Davis-Frenzel; 7 Gender, Accounts, and Rape Processing Work Patricia Yancey Martin; 8 Policing Woman Battering Kathleen J. Ferraro.
9 Emergency Department Responses to Battered Women: Resistance to Medicalization Demie Kurz10 The Social Construction of Deviance: Experts on Battered Women Donileen R. Loseke and Spencer E. Cahill; Part III Feminist Activism and Social Change; 11 The Battered Woman Movement and the Creation of the Wife Beating Problem Kathleen J. Tierney; 12 Identity, Strategy, and Feminist Politics: Clemency for Battered Women Who Kill Patricia Gagné; Sources; Index; About the Editors.
Summary: This is an edited volume of 12 articles previously published in Social Problems that may be considered among the most influential in the development of the sociological study of violence against women.
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Print version record.

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; Introduction: The Emergence of Violence against Women as a Social Problem Claire M. Renzetti and Raquel Kennedy Bergen; Part I Forms of Violence against Women; 1 ""Riding the Bull at Gilley's"": Convicted Rapists Describe the Rewards of Rape Diana Scully and Joseph Marolla; 2 The Myth of Sexual Symmetry in Marital Violence Russell R Dobash, R. Emerson Dobash, Margo Wilson, and Martin Daly; 3 Safe Conduct: Women, Crime, and Self in Public Places Carol Brooks Gardner.

4 On Being Stalked Robert M. Emerson, Kerry O. Ferris, and Carol Brooks Gardner5 The Locker Room and the Dorm Room: Workplace Norms and the Boundaries of Sexual Harassment in Magazine Editing Kirsten Dellinger and Christine L. Williams; Part II Institutional Responses to Violence against Women; 6 Prosecutorial Justifications for Sexual Assault Case Rejection: Guarding the ""Gateway to Justice"" Cassia Spohn, Dawn Beichner, and Erika Davis-Frenzel; 7 Gender, Accounts, and Rape Processing Work Patricia Yancey Martin; 8 Policing Woman Battering Kathleen J. Ferraro.

9 Emergency Department Responses to Battered Women: Resistance to Medicalization Demie Kurz10 The Social Construction of Deviance: Experts on Battered Women Donileen R. Loseke and Spencer E. Cahill; Part III Feminist Activism and Social Change; 11 The Battered Woman Movement and the Creation of the Wife Beating Problem Kathleen J. Tierney; 12 Identity, Strategy, and Feminist Politics: Clemency for Battered Women Who Kill Patricia Gagné; Sources; Index; About the Editors.

This is an edited volume of 12 articles previously published in Social Problems that may be considered among the most influential in the development of the sociological study of violence against women.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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