Author: Adrian Howe
ISBN: 9780203891278

Family Abuse & Violence, Criminology - Bias Crimes, Abuse of Women, Women & Crime, Postmodernism, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Sex Differences, 20th Century French Philosophy, Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous

by Adrian Howe

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Overview

Theoretically informed yet entirely accessible style, this book provides a novel critical approach to questions of sex and violence in contemporary Western society.

Synopsis

What Happens When You Sex Violent Crimes? More Specifically, What Happens When You Make Men's Violence Against Women The Subject Of A Conversation Or The Focus Of Scholarly Attention? The Short Answer Is: All Hell Breaks Loose. Adrian Howe Explores Some Of The Ways In Which This Persistent And Pervasive Form Of Violence Has Been Named And Unnamed As A Significant Social Problem In Western Countries Over The Past Four Decades. Addressing What She Calls The 'man' Question - So Named Because It Pays Attention To The Discursive Place Occupied, Or More Usually Vacated, By Men In Accounts Of Their Violence Against Women - She Explores What Happens When That Violence Is Placed On The Criminological And Political Agenda. Written In A Theoretically-informed Yet Accessible Style, Sex, Violence And Crime Provides A Novel And Highly Original Approach To Questions Of Sex And Violence In Contemporary Western Society. Directed At Criminologists, Students And, More Widely, At Anyone Interested In These Issues, It Challenges Readers To Come To Grips With Postmodern Feminist Reconceptualisations Of The Fraught Relationship Between Sex, Violence And Crime In Order To Better Combat Men's Violence Against Women And Children.--book Jacket. Let's Talk About Sex, Baby -- Sex, Violence And Criminology : From Sex To Sex Killers -- Pierre Rivière : A Postmodern Case Study -- 'critical' Criminology, Postmodernism And The 'man' Question -- 'men's Violence' On The Agenda : Proliferating Feminisms -- Policy Conundrums--reframing 'domestic Violence' In The New Millennium. Adrian Howe. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 220-234) And Index.

About the Author, Adrian Howe

Adrian Howe is Professor of Criminology at the University of Central Lancashire and is the author of Punish and Critique: Towards a Feminist Theory of Penality.