| Description |
ix, 260 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-256) and index. |
| Contents |
Sexual assault -- Surviving sexual violence: a philosophical perspective / Susan J. Brison -- Sexual assault and the problem of consent / Patricia Kazan -- Rape, genocide, and women's human rights / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- Domestic violence -- Standards of perfection and battered women's self-defense / Wanda Teays -- Violence in Bangladesh / Roksana Nazneen -- Female genital mutilation: violence in the nature of tradition, religion, and social imperative / Semra Asefa -- Sexual harassment in legal and medical contexts -- Identifying sexual harassment: the reasonable woman standard / Debra A. DeBruin -- "Her body her own worst enemy": the medicalization of violence against women / Abby L. Wilkerson -- Pornography and prostitution -- Media liability for personal injury caused by pornography / Edith L. Pacillo -- The myth of the happy hooker: Kantian moral reflections on a phenomenology of prostitution / Clelia Smyth Anderson and Yolanda Estes -- Policies and perspectives on violence -- Violence and transcultural values / Arnold R. Eiser -- International development paradigms and violence against women / Natalie Dandekar -- Resistance to prevention: reconsidering feminist antiviolence rhetoric / Nadya Burton. |
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Women -- Crimes against.
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Women -- Crimes against. |
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Sexual harassment of women.
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Sexual harassment of women. |
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Sexual abuse victims.
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Sexual abuse victims. |
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Family violence.
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Family violence. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
French, Stanley G.
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Teays, Wanda.
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Purdy, Laura Martha.
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| ISBN |
0801484529 paperback alkaline paper |
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0801434416 cloth alkaline paper |
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