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Sheltering women : negotiating gender and violence in northern Italy / Sonja Plesset. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plesset, Sonja.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Italy--Parma--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Sex role--Italy--Parma.
- Sex role.
- Wife abuse--Italy--Parma.
- Wife abuse.
- Abused wives--Italy--Parma.
- Abused wives.
- Abused women--Italy--Parma.
- Abused women.
- Women--Social conditions--Parma--Italy.
- Sex role--Parma--Italy.
- Wife abuse--Parma--Italy.
- Abused wives--Parma--Italy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 250 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Offering an ethnography of two women's shelters - one leftist the other Catholic - this book provides the political, cultural and legal contexts of competing explanations for intimate partner violence.
- Contents:
- Engaging the field
- Postfeminist uncertainties
- Politics of gender and shelter
- Two sides of shame
- Gender proficiencies
- Engendering resistance
- Gendered divides.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-240) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8047-6786-6
- OCLC:
- 1294426701
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