Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective by Merry, Sally Engle

Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780631223580)

Vendor: Sally Engle Merry
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$105.50
$105.50
$105.50
Subtotal: $105.50
Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective by Merry, Sally Engle

Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective

$105.50
Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective by Merry, Sally Engle

Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective

$105.50
Format: Hardcover
Description
Description
x
Taking an anthropological perspective, this comprehensive book offers a highly readable and concise overview of what constitutes gender violence, its social context, and important directions in intervention and reform.
  • Uses stories, personal accounts, case studies and a global perspective to provide a vivid and engaging portrait of forms of violence in gendered relationships
  • Extensively covers many forms of gender violence including domestic violence, rape, murder, wartime sexual assault, prison and police violence, female genital cutting, dowry murders, female infanticide, "honor" killings, and sex trafficking
  • Examines major approaches to diminishing gender violence such as criminalization, batterer retraining programs, and human rights interventions
  • Highlights the role of social movements in defining the problem and mobilizing reforms in the US and internationally


Author: Sally Engle Merry
ISBN-10: 0631223584
ISBN-13: 9780631223580
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2008
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.80w x 0.70d
By Sally Engle Merry
By Sally Engle Merry
x
Sally Engle Merry is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Law and Society Program at New York University. Her recent books include Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Local Justice (2006), and The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law between the Local and the Global, (co-edited with Mark Goodale; 2007). She is past president of the Law and Society Association and the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology.

Recently Viewed Products