Violence in the city of women : police and batterers in Bahia, Brazil /

Violence in the city of women : police and batterers in Bahia, Brazil /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hautzinger, Sarah J., 1963-
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 342 p.)
Language:	English
Subject:	Women -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) Policewomen -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) Family violence -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) Masculinity -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) Sex role -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) Family violence. Masculinity. Policewomen. Sex role. Women. Brazil -- Bahia (State) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11157011

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ISBN:	9780520941151 0520941152 9780520252769 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520252776 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781435611436 1435611438 0520252764 9780520252769 0520252772 9780520252776 1433708965 9781433708961
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-325) and index. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	Brazil's innovative all-female police stations, installed as part of the return to civilian rule in the 1980s, mark the country's first effort to police domestic violence against women. This work explores this phenomenon as a window onto the shifting relationship between violence and gendered power struggles in the city of Salvador da Bahia.
Other form:	Print version: Violence in the city of women Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. 9780520252769 (cloth : alk. paper)

Table of Contents:

Introduction: violence in Salvador da Bahia, city of women
Womanly webs: in-laws and violence
When cocks can't crow: masculinity and violence
Paths to a police station
Policing by and for women
Reluctant champions: policewomen or women police?
Conclusion and epilogue.