Research Catalog

Title

Sourcebook on violence against women / editors Claire M. Renzetti, Jeffrey L. Edleson, Raquel Kennedy Bergen.

Publication

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Renzetti, Claire M.
• Edleson, Jeffrey L.
• Bergen, Raquel Kennedy.

Description

xii, 539 pages; 26 cm

Summary

This text provides comprehensive coverage of the complex theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues surrounding violence against women.

Subject

• Börngen, ..
• Women > Crimes against
• Abused women
• Family violence
• Sex discrimination against women
• Battered Women
• Crime Victims
• Gewalttätigkeit
• Misshandelte Frau
• Verbrechensopfer
• Geweld
• Vrouwen
• Femmes > Crimes contre
• Femmes victimes de violence
• Violence familiale
• Discrimination sexuelle

Genre/Form

• Reference works.
• Reference sources.
• Ouvrages de référence.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Theoretical explanations for violence against women / Jana L. Jasinski -- Definitional issues / Walter S. DeKeseredy, Martin D. Schwartz -- Measurement issues for violence against women / Sujata Desai, Linda E. Saltzman -- Special topic : Men researching violence against women / Neil Websdale -- Ethical issues in research on violence against women / Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Jacqueline D. Dienemann -- Collaborating for women's safety : partnerships between research and practice / Jeffrey L. Edleson, Andrea L. Bible -- Victimization of female children / Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett -- Special topic : Female genital mutilation / Tamar Diana Wilson -- From prevalence to prevention : closing the gap between what we know about rape and what we do / Karen Bachar, Mary P. Koss -- Violence against women by intimate relationship partners / Patricia Mahoney, Linda M. Williams, Carolyn M. West -- Violence against older women / Linda Vinton -- Mainstreaming immobility : disability pornography and its challenge to two movements / R. Amy Elman -- Sexual harassment : violence against women at work / Phoebe Morgan -- Services for sexual assault survivors : the role of rape crisis centers / Rebecca Campbell, Patricia Yancey Martin -- Special topic : Sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) program / Linda E. Ledray -- Shelters and other community-based services for battered women and their children / Cris M. Sullivan, Tameka Gillum -- Intervention programs for men who batter / Larry W. Bennett, Oliver J. Williams -- The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 : the federal commitment to ending domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and gender-based crimes of violence / Roberta L. Valente ... [and others] -- Criminal justice system responses to domestic violence : law enforcement and the courts / LeeAnn Iovanni, Susan L. Miller -- Advocacy on behalf of battered women / Ellen Pence -- Health intervention with battered women : from crisis intervention to complex social prevention / Evan Stark -- Religious issues and violence against women / Marie M. Fortune -- School-based education and prevention programs / Mary K. O'Brien -- Getting the message out : using media to change social norms on abuse / Marissa Ghez -- Domestic violence as a welfare-to-work barrier : research and theoretical issues / Jody Raphael -- Special topic : Criminalization of pregnancy / Drew Humphries -- Prostitution, the sex industry, and sex tourism / Jody Miller, Dheeshana Jayasundara -- Violence against women as a human rights violation : international institutional responses / Johanna Bond, Robin Phillips.

ISBN

• 0761920048
• 9780761920045
• 0761920056
• 9780761920052

LCCN

00010215

OCLC

• ocm44578719
• 44578719
• SCSB-1205662

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library