Violence against women / edited by Claire M. Renzetti and Raquel Kennedy Bergen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Renzetti, Claire M.

Bergen, Raquel Kennedy.

Series:

Understanding social problems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Violence against--United States.

Women.

Women--Crimes against--United States.

Women--Crimes against.

Women--Violence against.

United States.

Physical Description:

vii, 297 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2005]

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.

Contents:

Introduction: the emergence of violence against women as a social problem / Claire M. Renzetti & Raquel Kennedy Bergen

"Riding the bull at Gilley's" : convicted rapists describe the rewards of rape / Diana Scully & Joseph Marolla

The myth of sexual symmetry in marital violence / Russell P. Dobash ... [et al.]

Safe conduct : women, crime, and self in public places / Carol Brooks Gardner

On being stalked / Robert M. Emerson, Kerry O. Ferris & Carol Brooks Gardner

The locker room and the dorm room : workplace norms and the boundaries of sexual harassment in magazine editing / Kirsten Dellinger & Christine L. Williams

Prosecutorial justifications for sexual assault case rejection : guarding the "gateway to justice" / Cassia Spohn, Dawn Becihner & Erica Davis-Frenzel

Gender accounts and rape processing work / Patricia Yancey Martin

Policing woman battering / Kathleen J. Ferraro

Emergency department responses to battered women : resistance to medicalization / Demi Kurz

The social construction of deviance : experts on battered women / Donileen R. Loseke & Spencer E. Cahill

The battered woman movement and the creation of the wife beating problem / Kathleen J. Tierney

Identity, strategy, and feminist politics : clemency for battered women who kill / Patricia Gagn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

074253054X

0742530558

OCLC:

55699437