Research Catalog

Title

Violence & gender reexamined / Richard B. Felson.

Author

Felson, Richard B.

Publication

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2002.

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Additional Authors

American Psychological Association

Description

xi, 273 p.; 26 cm.

Summary

"Violence and Gender Reexamined challenges one of Western culture's most deeply held assumptions: that violence against women is different from violence against men. In this book, author Richard B. Felson makes a case that this type of violence is rarely the result of sexism or hatred against women. The author cites research suggesting that the motives for violence against women are similar to the motives for violence against men: to gain control or retribution and to promote or defend self-image. These motives play a role in almost all violence, regardless of gender."--Jacket.

Series Statement

The law and public policy : psychology and the social sciences

Uniform Title

Law and public policy

Alternative Title

Violence and gender reexamined

Subject

• Prejudice
• Sexism > United States
• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
• United States
• Violence > United States > Psychological aspects
• Violence > psychology
• Violence in men > United States
• Women
• Women > Violence against > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-253) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A theory of instrumental aggression -- -- Violence inside and outside the family: -- Comparing frequencies -- Gender differences in power and status -- Chivalry -- Privacy and police intervention -- Controlling women -- Love triangles -- -- Rape and sexual coercion: -- Coercive versus consensual sex -- Sexual motivation -- Sexism and sexual coercion -- Sexual coercion and the law.

ISBN

1557988951 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002001966

OCLC

48966633

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library