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Violence against women : philosophical perspectives / edited by Stanley G. French, Wanda Teays, Laura M. Purdy.

Title
Violence against women : philosophical perspectives / edited by Stanley G. French, Wanda Teays, Laura M. Purdy.
Publication
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors
  • French, Stanley G.
  • Teays, Wanda
  • Purdy, Laura Martha
Description
ix, 260 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Börngen, ..
  • Sex Offenses
  • Sex Work
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Battered Women
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Women > Crimes against
  • Sexual harassment of women
  • Sexual abuse victims
  • Family violence
  • Crime Victims
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-256) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Sexual assault -- Surviving sexual violence: a philosophical perspective / Susan J. Brison -- Sexual assault and the problem of consent / Patricia Kazan -- Rape, genocide, and women's human rights / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- Domestic violence -- Standards of perfection and battered women's self-defense / Wanda Teays -- Violence in Bangladesh / Roksana Nazneen -- Female genital mutilation: violence in the nature of tradition, religion, and social imperative / Semra Asefa -- Sexual harassment in legal and medical contexts -- Identifying sexual harassment: the reasonable woman standard / Debra A. DeBruin -- "Her body her own worst enemy": the medicalization of violence against women / Abby L. Wilkerson -- Pornography and prostitution -- Media liability for personal injury caused by pornography / Edith L. Pacillo -- The myth of the happy hooker: Kantian moral reflections on a phenomenology of prostitution / Clelia Smyth Anderson and Yolanda Estes -- Policies and perspectives on violence -- Violence and transcultural values / Arnold R. Eiser -- International development paradigms and violence against women / Natalie Dandekar -- Resistance to prevention: reconsidering feminist antiviolence rhetoric / Nadya Burton.
ISBN
  • 0801434416 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0801484529 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^97046848^
OCLC
  • 38067576
  • SCSB-10210970
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library