Companion reader on violence against women /

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Imprint:	Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2012.
Description:	x, 411 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Women -- Crimes against. Abused women. Marital violence. Sex discrimination against women. Abused women. Marital violence. Sex discrimination against women. Women -- Crimes against.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8518313

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Other authors / contributors:	Renzetti, Claire M. Edleson, Jeffrey L. Bergen, Raquel Kennedy.
ISBN:	9781412996495 (pbk.) 141299649X (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This reader is intended to be bundled with several books on our list that coincide with courses on domestic violence and family violence. The primary book is Renzetti, Sourcebook on Violence Against Women as well as Barnett, Family Violence Across the Lifespan. The book will contain 20 articles selected by the editors to compliment the Sourcebook. It will be organized in three parts: Theoretical Issues, Types of Violence and Prevention, and Direct intervention. Because the research in this area is fast moving, it is important for students to be aware of the latest findings and trends. The reader will help faculty feel confident that students are getting exposed to the latest research on violence against women. The editors will also provide a one page summary of highlights and lessons for each article in the reader. They will also develop discussion questions for all the articles in the reader"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Researching Violence Against Women
1. An Ecological Model of the Impact of Sexual Assault on Women's Mental Health
2. The Capabilities Approach and Violence Against Women: Implications for Social Development
3. Collecting Reliable Information About Violence Against Women Safely in Household Interviews: Experience From a Large-Scale National Survey in South Asia
4. Development of the Scale of Economic Abuse
Part II. Types of Violence Against Women
5. The Extensive Sexual Violation and Sexual Abuse Histories of Incarcerated Women
6. Gendered War and Gendered Peace: Truth Commissions and Postconflict Gender Violence: Lessons From South Africa
7. Violence Against Women and Natural Disasters: Findings From Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka
8. Understanding Human Trafficking in the United States
9. ôYou Just Give Them What They Want and Pray They Don't Kill Youö: Street-Level Sex Workers' Reports of Victimization, Personal Resources, and Coping Strategies
10. Attitudes Toward Wife Beating: A Cross-Country Study in Asia
11. Intersections of Immigration and Domestic Violence: Voices of Battered Immigrant Women
12. Invisible or Pathologized? Racial Statistics and Violence Against Women of Color
13. When Crises Collide: How intimate Partner Violence and Poverty Intersect to Shape Women's Mental Health and Coping
14. Adult Domestic Violence in Cases of International Parental Child Abduction
15. Domestic Violence Between Same-Gender Partners: Recent Findings and Future Research
Part III. Prevention and Direct Intervention
16. Sexual Assault Support Services and Community Systems: Understanding Critical Issues and Needs in the LGBTQ Community
17. Normative Misperceptions of Abuse Among Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence
18. Danger Zone: Battered Mothers and Their Families in Supervised Visitation
19. Factors Associated With Engagement in a Police-Advocacy Home Visit Intervention to Prevent Domestic Violence
20. Partnering With Community-Based Organizations to Reduce Intimate Partner Violence
21. The Violence Against Women Campaigns in Latin America: New Feminist Alliances
Index
About the Editors

Companion reader on violence against women /

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