Rethinking violence against women / editors, R. Emerson Dobash, Russell P. Dobash.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dobash, R. Emerson.

Dobash, Russell.

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

Series:

Sage series on violence against women ; v. 9.

Sage series on violence against women ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Crimes against--Congresses.

Women.

Women--Crimes against.

Sexual harassment of women--Congresses.

Sexual harassment of women.

Family violence--Congresses.

Family violence.

Wife abuse--Congresses.

Wife abuse.

Women--Social conditions--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1998]

Summary:

This cutting-edge volume advances theories, methodologies and policy analyses relating to various forms of violence against women. Topics covered include: the nature, importance and variety of cultural contexts in which violence occurs, is reproduced and may be challenged or changed; the nature and variety of sexualized violence; and a range of theoretical perspectives on perpetrators of violence.

Taking an interdisciplinary focus on issues that affect community and state responses, the book includes individual accounts, and incorporates themes related to authority, sexual proprietariness, asymmetry of violence, socialization, patterns and deviations of victims and offenders, and social and cultural contexts.

Contents:

1. Cross-Border Encounters: Challenges and Opportunities / Rebecca Emerson Dobash, Russell P. Dobash 1

Violence(s), Concepts, and Definitions 4

Working Across Disciplines 6

The Importance of Context 9

The Extent of Violence Against Women 10

Physical and Sexual Attacks on the Body: Definitions of "What Counts," "Marking" the Body, and "Making" the Person 11

Intimate Violence in the Context of Violence in the Wider Society 14

The Violent Event, Masculinity, and the Context of Male Culture 15

Constructing Gender Through Violence, Enacting Gender Through Violence 16

2. Rethinking Survey Research on Violence Against Women / Holly Johnson 23

Traditional Crime-Victim Surveys 25

The Conflict Tactics Approach 26

The Violence Against Women Survey 29

Constructing Definitions of Violence 34

The Prevalence of Violence Against Women 37

Test of a Theory of Assaults on Wives 41

3. Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls: An Approach to an International Overview / Liz Kelly, Jill Radford 53

Emergence and Development of Issues 54

Power and Male Domination 63

Offenders and Male Sexual Aggression 64

Impacts and Consequences 67

Institutional and Social Responses 70

Normalization and Resistance 73

4. Violence Embodied? Circumcision, Gender Politics, and Cultural Aesthetics / Janice Boddy 77

Practices and the Literature 81

Marriageability and Identity: Toward a Concept of Embodiment 93

On the Politics of Aesthetics 97

5. Violence Against Women in Societies Under Stress / Monica McWilliams 111

What Constitutes Violence Against Women in Conflictual Societies? 112

Violence Against Women in Conflict Situations 114

Violence Against Women in the Family 119

Political Conflict and Domestic Violence: The Example of Northern Ireland 129

6. Violent Men and Violent Contexts / Rebecca Emerson Dobash, Russell P. Dobash 141

Violent Acts and Violent Actors 143

The Constellation of Violence: Violence, Injuries, and Controlling Behaviors 155

Men, Masculine Identity, and Violence 164

7. The Hand That Strikes and Comforts: Gender Construction and the Tension Between Body and Symbol / Eva Lundgren 169

The Symbols of Violence or the Aesthetics of the Gender Battle? A Symbolic Field Based on Bodily Movement and Contact 171

The Masculine Symbolic Trinity: The Hand, the Strap, and the Phallus 178

Women's Sexual Morphology of Touch as a Symbolic Basis 180

Striking and Comforting

or the Hand as a Constitutive Category 183

A Violent Sex Life: Regulative Flexibility and Basic Constitutive Patterns 185

"The Stone" and "The Sea": "Different" or "The Same"? 188

"Different" Contents

"The Same" Function? 189

The Division Between the Bodily and the Symbolic "Self"

The Strategy of the Abused Woman 191

The Body as a Category for Change? 194

Conclusion: A More Open Approach to Gender Theory? 196

8. Lethal and Nonlethal Violence Against Wives and the Evolutionary Psychology of Male Sexual Proprietariness / Margo Wilson, Martin Daly 199

Psychological Links Between Sexual Proprietariness and Violence 202

An Evolutionary Psychological Framework for Understanding Links Between Male Sexual Proprietariness and Violence Against Wives 207

Hypotheses About Patterned Variations in Male Sexual Proprietariness and Violence 214

Violence Against Wives and Children 224.

Notes:

"Based on a series of international workshops sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index.

ISBN:

0761911863

0761911871

OCLC:

38879202