| Description |
x, 242 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Ethnographic notes from the front lines of gender-based violence / Jennifer R. Wies and Hillary J. Haldane -- Disparity in disasters: a frontline view of gender-based inequities in emergency aid and health care / Roxane Richter -- Participant and observer: reflections on fieldwork in a women's shelter in Tokyo, Japan / Sharman L. Babior -- Crafting community through narratives, images, and shared experience / Stephanie J. Brommer -- "We couldn't just throw her in the street": gendered violence and women's shelters in Turkey / Kim Shively -- Institutional resources (un)available: the effects of police attitudes and actions on battered women in Peru / M. Cristina Alcalde -- Child welfare and domestic violence workers' cultural models of domestic violence: an ethnographic examination / Cyleste C. Collins -- Gender-based violence: perspectives from the male European front line / Uwe Jacobs -- Cultural politics of a global/local health program for battered women in Vietnam / Lynn Kwiatkowski -- Global civil society and the local costs of belonging: defining violence against women in Russia / Julie Hemment -- Memorializing murder, speaking back to the state / Belinda Leach -- Laliti, compassionate savior: the hidden archaeology of founding a shelter / Jamila Bargach. |
| Subject |
Violence -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Women -- Violence against -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Abused women -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Family violence -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Added Author |
Wies, Jennifer R.
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Haldane, Hillary J.
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| ISBN |
9780826517814 (pbk. edition : alk. paper) |
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9780826517807 (cloth edition : alk. paper) |
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0826517803 (cloth edition : alk. paper) |
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0826517811 (pbk. edition : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
3604279 |
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