The Woman in the Violence

The Woman in the Violence
Author: M. Cristina Alcalde
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2010-12-10
Genre: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN: 0826517315

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Combating abuse and violence in a South American capital

Indigenous Women and Violence

Indigenous Women and Violence
Author: Lynn Stephen
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816539456

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Indigenous Women and Violence offers an intimate view of how settler colonialism and other structural forms of power and inequality created accumulated violences in the lives of Indigenous women. This volume uncovers how these Indigenous women resist violence in Mexico, Central America, and the United States, centering on the topics of femicide, immigration, human rights violations, the criminal justice system, and Indigenous justice. Taking on the issues of our times, Indigenous Women and Violence calls for the deepening of collaborative ethnographies through community engagement and performing research as an embodied experience. This book brings together settler colonialism, feminist ethnography, collaborative and activist ethnography, emotional communities, and standpoint research to look at the links between structural, extreme, and everyday violences across time and space. Indigenous Women and Violence is built on engaging case studies that highlight the individual and collective struggles that Indigenous women face from the racial and gendered oppression that structures their lives. Gendered violence has always been a part of the genocidal and assimilationist projects of settler colonialism, and it remains so today. These structures—and the forms of violence inherent to them—are driving criminalization and victimization of Indigenous men and women, leading to escalating levels of assassination, incarceration, or transnational displacement of Indigenous people, and especially Indigenous women. This volume brings together the potent ethnographic research of eight scholars who have dedicated their careers to illuminating the ways in which Indigenous women have challenged communities, states, legal systems, and social movements to promote gender justice. The chapters in this book are engaged, feminist, collaborative, and activism focused, conveying powerful messages about the resilience and resistance of Indigenous women in the face of violence and systemic oppression. Contributors: R. Aída Hernández-Castillo, Morna Macleod, Mariana Mora, María Teresa Sierra, Shannon Speed, Lynn Stephen, Margo Tamez, Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj

The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence

The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence
Author: Stacy Banwell
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2023-08-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1803822554

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Grounded in feminist scholarship, this book upends normative accounts of femme fatale violence to focus beyond the misogyny and the sensationalism and unearth the motivation behind women's roles in homicide, terrorism, combat, and even nationalist movements.

The Psychology of Female Violence

The Psychology of Female Violence
Author: Anna Motz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2008-01-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134140037

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First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Violence and the Female Imagination

Violence and the Female Imagination
Author: Paula Ruth Gilbert
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2006-03-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0773577106

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In the past twenty years Quebec women writers, including Aline Chamberland, Claire Dé, Suzanne Jacob, and Hélène Rioux, have created female characters who are fascinated with bold sexual actions and language, cruelty, and violence, at times culminating in infanticide and serial killing. Paula Ruth Gilbert argues that these Quebec feminist writers are "re-framing" gender. Violence and the Female Imagination explores whether these imagined women are striking out at an external other or harming themselves through acts of self-destruction and depression. Gilbert examines the degree to which women are imitating men in the outward direction of their anger and hostility and suggests that such "tough" women may be mocking men in their "macho" exploits of sexuality and violence. She illustrates the ways in which Quebec female authors are "feminizing" violence or re-envisioning gender in North American culture. Gilbert bridges methodological gaps and integrates history, sociology, literary theory, feminist theory, and other disciplinary approaches to provide a framework for the discussion of important ethical and aesthetic questions.

Women and Male Violence

Women and Male Violence
Author: Susan Schechter
Publisher: South End Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1982
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780896081598

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Takes an in-depth look at battering and the social movement against it. It describes not only the horrifying experiences of victims, but the powerful movement that demands an end to violence against women and permanent changes in the conditions of women's lives.

Women and Violence

Women and Violence
Author: Heather Widdows
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1137015128

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Chapter 4 of this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com. This edited collection explores the agency of women who do violence and have violence done to them. Topics covered include rape, pornography, prostitution, suicide bombing and domestic violence. The volume contributes to the philosophical and theoretical debate, as well as offering practical, social and political responses to the issues examined.

Female Identity Formation and Response to Intimate Violence

Female Identity Formation and Response to Intimate Violence
Author: Anne Kiome Gatobu
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2013-02-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1610973437

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This book is a vital resource for intervention programs, educators, social workers, counselors, psychotherapists, pastoral counselors, and survivors of intimate violence and their families. It gives the reader access to the inner emotions and psychological mechanisms of survivors of intimate violence in collective cultures that work to hold them captive in violent relationships. The author integrates the psychological developmental theories of Heinz Kohut and Erik Erikson with social, cultural, and religious aspects to demonstrate the collusive power of what she calls the orienting system (psychosocial and religious cultural force) in the formation of a female sense of self, to investigate the peculiar range of responses of females to intimate violence. Using theoretical and empirical research, the author claims that the demeanor and functionality of the female survivor of intimate violence is an adaptation that enables her to retain her socially prescribed roles, which she appropriates as a social identity and sense of self. A surprising aspect of this work is the transformative power of religion, also resourced in the orienting system, in transforming the psychic hold of survivors to cathected self-objects, to self-images that approximate a self in healthy relationship with God. Consequently the energies and investment released can be redirected to cohere in self-identities that can optimize drive, thrive and relationality.

Women and Violence

Women and Violence
Author: Barrie Levy
Publisher: Seal Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2008-11-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786726725

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When women decide what to wear, where to go, how to get there, what time of day to be outdoors, and what affects their sense of security and safety, are they aware that they’re afraid of being sexually assaulted? Violence against women is, on a global scale, so common that some experts consider it a "normal” aspect of women’s experiences—and yet research on the issue is subjective and inconsistent. Women and Violence is a comprehensive look at the issue of violence against women and its many appearances, causes, costs and consequences. Understanding that personal values, beliefs and environment affect an individual’s response to—and acknowledgement of—violence against women, this book addresses topics such as global perspectives on violence, controversies and debates, and social change strategies and activism.

Women, Ideology and Violence

Women, Ideology and Violence
Author: Cheryl Anderson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2004-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0826437613

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Cheryl Anderson examines the laws relating to women that are found in the Book of the Covenant and the Deuteronomic law. She argues that the laws can be divided into those that treat women similarly to men (defined as "inclusive" laws) and those that treat women differently ("exclusive" laws). This study then suggests that the exclusive laws, which construct gender as male dominance/female subordination, do not just describe violence against women but constitute a form of violence against women. As a non-historical critique of ideology, critical theory is used to offer analytical insights that have significant implications for understanding gender constructions and violence in ot ancient and contemporary settings.