Ordinary Violence

Everyday Assaults Against Women

Author: Mary White Stewart
ISBN: 9780897897143

Violence against women cannot be understood as an expression of individual rage or inadequacy or as a characteristic of the violent or violated. As long as women are the other, degraded and devalued because they are female rather than male, which is to say as long as women do not have power equal to that of men in the political, economic, and social realm, they will be abused. Violence against women cannot be disentangled from the cultural, economic, and social context within which it occurs. While violence takes varying forms in different cultures, reflecting the differential power of women and different definitions of women's value in these cultures, in each it reflects the cultural definitions of woman and the feminine as subordinate, and reinforces the gender structure in which women are oppressed. This book provides a theoretical and conceptual approach to the intricate relationship between gender structure and the many forms of violence against women. This structure, woven throug

Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Publish Date: 2002

Subjects: Family & Relationships / Abuse / General, Social Science / Criminology, Social Science / Sociology / General, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Violence)