Research Catalog

Title

The trap of proximity violence : research and insights into male dominance and female resistance / Ignazia Bartholini.

Author

Bartholini, Ignazia

Publication

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]

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Details

Description

xii, 122 pages; 25 cm

Summary

This book aims at shifting the emphasis from a general vision of gender-based violence to a more opaque, yet equally destructive one, that related to "proximity violence". The first type of violence is exercised in multiple situations and in the generality of relationships experienced by people involving others who are both strangers to and intimate with each other. Proximity violence provides and includes a fiduciary kind of "proximity", of "dependent intimacy", where the trust that the victim places in the other (her tormentor) favours the exercise of violence itself, allowing it to take place, thus making it practically imperceptible when not actually normal, in extreme cases. In turn, this confidence is comparable to "a veil of Maja" which, in conditions of vulnerability typical of victims, attenuates the consequences of the violence undergone or the omens of what becomes violent action. The conceptual triad: proximity violence, vulnerability, resistance-resilience is explored here, in the three main chapters and in the details aimed at identifying, in the final chapter, the mutual interconnections. This book will be of particular interest and use to undergraduate and graduate students of sociology and gender studies.

Subject

• Clinical health psychology
• Ethnopsychology
• Social sciences
• Personality
• Social psychology
• Social structure
• Equality

Genre/Form

Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Chapter 1. Violence and proximity violence. Links and interpretative developments -- Chapter 2. Deception and abuse: manifold instances of proximity violence against Sub-Saharan women -- Chapter 3. Human Trafficking: the viscous link between vulnerability and proximity violence -- Chapter 4. Nostalgia and proximity violence: daily life and regressive mestizament -- Chapter 5. Violence through words: cultural aspects and performative agency -- Chapter 6. European Mediterranean women and the "showdown" between public emancipation and private self-oppression.

Call Number

JFE 21-4438

ISBN

• 3030524507
• 9783030524500

OCLC

1156991812

Author

Bartholini, Ignazia, author.

Title

The trap of proximity violence : research and insights into male dominance and female resistance / Ignazia Bartholini.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index

Research Call Number

JFE 21-4438