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Women in a Violent World

Name: Women in a Violent World
Author: Chris Corrin
ISBN: 9780748608041

by Chris Corrin

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This book examines the different ways in which women experience male violence in various situations across 'Europe' and the analyses that feminists have made of that experience. Contributors speak out against men's violent use of power over women, and in favour of making available public resources to support women who survive violent situations, for changes in legislation and developing educational programmes and public awareness campaigns. While the studies differ in form and context, connections are made betweenviolence apparent at different levels from local or 'domestic' to the national and international contexts. Particular emphasis is placed on women's strategies for resistance whether in situations in which violence occurs in the home, in war conditions, in the movement of refugees or in the widening scope of 'sex industries'.

* 'European' and international focus (chapters on Russia, Hungary, Ireland, England, Switzerland, Serbia, Croatia, Spain and Scotland)

* Unites feminist theorising of volence against women with campaigning practices

* Chapters on the former Yugoslavia raise issues relating to violenceagainst women in war situations

* Emphasis placed on women's resistance in varying 'European' cultures

* Analyses violence at local, national and international levels

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Explores the political use of power within patriarchies and the politics of feminist resistance in European countries. Three sections cover: analyses and challenges to male sexual violence in local/household contexts; feminists campaigning within racialized political contexts and within war situations; and feminist interventions in state structures. Topics include sexism and sexual abuse in Russia, men's violence against women in Ireland, domestic violence in Asian communities, and feminist perspectives in Switzerland. Distributed in the US by Columbia University Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.