Gender violence : interdisciplinary perspectives

O'Toole, Laura L., (editor.). Schiffman, Jessica R., (editor.). Sullivan, Rosemary, (editor.).

Summary: "From Harvey Weinstein to Brett Kavanaugh, accusations of gender violence saturate today headlines. In this fully revised edition of Gender Violence, Laura L. O'Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman, and Rosemary Sullivan bring together a new, interdisciplinary group of scholars, with up-to-date material on emerging issues like workplace harassment, transgender violence, intersectionality, and the #MeToo movement. Contributors provide a fresh, informed perspective on gender violence, in all of its various forms. With twenty-nine new contributors, and twelve original essays, the third edition now includes emerging contemporary issues such as LGBTQ violence, sex work, and toxic masculinity. A trailblazing text, Gender Violence, Third Edition is an essential read for students, activists, and others."--

Record details

ISBN: 1479820806
ISBN: 9781479820801
Physical Description: xvi, 584 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: New York : New York University Press, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

General Note:	Revised edition of Gender violence, ©2007.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-568) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface: Conceptualizing Gender Violence / Laura L. O'Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman, and Rosemary Sullivan -- Part I. The Roots of Gendered Violence. Section 1. Historicizing Gender Violence. "María de Jesús Mother of Weeping Rocks" / Claudia Castro Luna ; Gendered Violence in Small- Scale Societies in the Past / Debra L. Martin and Ryan P. Harrod ; Overcoming the Religious and Sexual Legacies of Slavery: An Overview / Bernadette J. Brooten ; Theorizing Women's Oppression / Sharon Smith ; Sexual Coercion in American Life / Edwin M. Schur -- Section 2. Global Gender Violence : A Template for Exploration. "Anatomy Lesson" / Cherrie Moraga ; The Socio- Cultural Context of Rape : A Cross- Cultural Study / Peggy Reeves Sanday ; Sexual Violence as a Weapon during the Guatemalan Genocide / Victoria Sanford, Sofia Duyos Álvarez-Arenas, and Kathleen Dill ; Situating "Toxic" Masculine Subcultures : Toward Disrupting Gendered Violence / Laura L. O'Toole and Jessica R. Schiffman -- Part II. Manifestations of Sexual Coercion and Violence. Section 1. Harassment and Bullying. "Agoraphobia" / Natasha Safé ; Expanding the Conceptualization of Workplace Violence : Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice / Kristin M. Van De Griend and DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias ; Everything from "Beautiful" to "Bitch" : Black Women and Street Harassment / Melinda Mills ; Gendered Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online / Bailey Poland ; #MeToo Has Done What the Law Could Not / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- Section 2. Rape and Sexual Violations. "Home" / Warsan Shire ; Sexual Terrorism in the Twenty- First Century / Carole J. Sheffield ; Lessons Still Being Learned from the "Comfort Women" of World War II / Margaret D. Stetz ; Forty Years after Brownmiller : Prisons for Men, Transgender Inmates, and the Rape of the Feminine / Valerie Jenness and Sarah Fenstermaker ; Consent / Linda Martín Alcoff -- Section 3. Intimate Partner Violence. "To Judge Faolain, Dead Long Enough : A Summons" / Linda McCarriston ; Domestic Violence : The Intersection of Gender and Control / Michael P. Johnson ; Violence in Intimate Relationships : A Feminist Perspective / bell hooks ; Religion and Intimate Partner Violence : A Double- Edged Sword / Lee E. Ross ; Intimate Partner Violence Survivors : The Struggles of Undocumented Latina Immigrants / Miriam G. Valdovinos -- Section 4. Children and Gender Violence. "The Second Photograph" / Margaret Randall ; Men, Masculinity, and Child Sexual Abuse : A Sex and Gender Question / Annie Cossins ; Locating a Secret Problem : Sexual Violence in Elementary and Secondary Schools / Nan D. Stein ; Where Are the Children? : Theorizing the Missing Piece in Gendered Sexual Violence / Nancy Whittier ; Rape Culture in Holy Spaces : Child Sexual Abuse by Clergy / Rosemary Sullivan -- Section 5. Commodified Bodies : Agency or Violation? "The Night Shift" / technicolordust ; Pornography and Black Women's Bodies / Patricia Hill Collins ; Pornographic Values : Hierarchy and Hubris / Robert Jensen ; Making Sense of Sex Work, Prostitution, and Trafficking- in the Classroom and Beyond / Chrysanthi S. Leon and Corey Shdaimah ; Intimate States : Policies and Their Effects on Sex Workers / Anastasia Hudgins -- Part III. Toward Nonviolence and Gender Justice. Section 1. Thinking about Change. From "Reimagining History" / Marcus Amaker and Marjory Wentworth ; Educating for Social Change : Feminist Curriculum and Community Partnerships for Advocacy Training / Jennifer Naccarelli and Susan L. Miller ; Preventing Gender Violence, Transforming Human Relations : A Case for Coeducation / Irene Comins Mingol ; Queer Organizing, Racial Justice, and the Reframing of Intimate Partner Violence / Elizabeth B. Erbaugh ; Revisiting the Impact of the Sex Industry and Prostitution in Europe / Janice G. Raymond ; Advances and Limitations of Policing and Human Security for Women : Nicaragua in Comparative Perspective / Shannon Drysdale Walsh ; Forks in the Road of Men's Gender Politics : Men's Rights versus Feminist Allies / Michael A. Messner ; Linguistic Nonviolence and Human Equality / William Guy.