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Violence against women / edited by Claire M. Renzetti and Raquel Kennedy Bergen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Understanding Social Problems: An SSSP Presidential Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Violence against--United States.
- Women.
- Women--Crimes against--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2005]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7425-3055-8
- 1-4616-4668-5
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