Research Catalog

Title

Violence and exploitation against women and girls / edited by Florence L. Denmark [and others].

Publication

Boston, Mass. : Blackwell Pub. on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Denmark, Florence.

Description

xv, 391 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 0077-8923 ; v. 1087

Uniform Title

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 1087.

Subjects

• Women
• Violence
• Girls > Violence against > Congresses
• Women > Violence against > Congresses
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Geweld
• Crime Victims
• Meisjes
• Congress
• Violence > Cross-cultural studies > Congresses
• Women > Violence against > Prevention > Congresses
• Vrouwen

Genre/Form

Congress.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Perspectives on violence / Herbert H. Krauss -- A protoscientific master metaphor for framing violence / Herbert H. Krauss -- Sexual aggression toward women : reducing the prevalence / Gwendolyn L. Gerber and Lindsay Cherneski -- Adolescent girls speak about violence in their community / Roseanne L. Flores -- Who wins in the status games? : violence, sexual violence, and an emerging single standard among adolescent women / Beatrice J. Krauss, Joanne O'Day, Christopher Godfrey, Kevin Rente, Elizabeth Freidin, Erica Bratt, Nadia Minian, Kraig Knibb, Christy Welch, Robert Kaplan, Gauri Saxena, Shawn McGinniss, Jacqueline Gilroy, Peter Nwakeze and Saundra Curtain -- Cyberspace violence against girls and adolescent females / June F. Chisholm -- Early violence prevention programs : implications for violence prevention against girls and women / Michelle Gutman, Barbara Mowder and Anastasia Yasik -- International perspectives on sexual harassment of college students : the sounds of silence / Michele Paludi, Rudy Nydegger, Eros Desouza, Liesl Nydegger and Kelsey Allen Dicker -- Intimate partner violence : new directions / Maureen C. McHugh and Irene Hanson Frieze -- Battered woman syndrome : empirical findings / Lenore E. A. Walker -- Factors that influence abusive interactions between aging women and their caregivers / Margot B. Nadien -- Violence and exploitation against women and girls with disability / Daniel B. Rosen -- Gender-based violence : concepts, methods, and findings / Nancy Felipe Russo and Angela Pirlott -- Restoring rape survivors : justice, advocacy, and a call to action / Mary P. Koss -- Violence against women as a public health issue / Joan C. Chrisler and Sheila Ferguson -- Cultural beliefs and domestic violence / Madeline Fernandez -- Violence against women in Mexico : conceptualization and program application / Susan Pick, Carmen Contreras and Alicia Barker-Aguilar -- Domestic violence in the Chinese and South Asian immigrant communities / Elizabeth Midlarsky, Anitha Venkataramani-Kothari and Maura Plante -- Domestic violence in Israel : changing attitudes / Varda Muhlbauer -- Lack of mutual respect in relationship : the endangered partner / Amos A. Alao -- Violence against pregnant women in Northwestern Ontario / Josephine C. H. Tan and Kathryn V. Gregor -- An exploration of female genital mutilation / Erika M. Baron and Florence L. Denmark -- International sexual harassment / Janet Sigal -- United Nations measures to stop violence against women / Eva E. Sandis -- Summary and conclusion / Florence L. Denmark, Herbert H. Kauss, Esther Halpern and Jeri A. Sechzer.

ISBN

• 9781573316675 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1573316679 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006032964

OCLC

• ocm73926496
• 73926496
• SCSB-5349872

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries