Title: Violence against women /
Authors: Renzetti, Claire M.; Bergen, Raquel Kennedy.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Women Violence against United States.; Women Crimes against United States.
Abstract: "Research and advocacy aimed at understanding and ending violence against women began in earnest in the early 1970s, with violence emerging as a central concern of the feminist movement. This work has expanded exponentially over the past three decades to influence practice and policy at the local, state, and federal levels. Many of the most influential articles in the field were published in Social Problems. This volume assembles twelve of these articles into a core text that cover such topics as wife abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment, and stalking as well as institutional responses to violence against women."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction: the emergence of violence against women as a social problem / Claire M. Renzetti & Raquel Kennedy Bergen -- "Riding the bull at Gilley's" : convicted rapists describe the rewards of rape / Diana Scully & Joseph Marolla -- The myth of sexual symmetry in marital violence / Russell P. Dobash ... [et al.] -- Safe conduct : women, crime, and self in public places / Carol Brooks Gardner -- On being stalked / Robert M. Emerson, Kerry O. Ferris & Carol Brooks Gardner -- The locker room and the dorm room : workplace norms and the boundaries of sexual harassment in magazine editing / Kirsten Dellinger & Christine L. Williams -- Prosecutorial justifications for sexual assault case rejection : guarding the "gateway to justice" / Cassia Spohn, Dawn Becihner & Erica Davis-Frenzel -- Gender accounts and rape processing work / Patricia Yancey Martin -- Policing woman battering / Kathleen J. Ferraro -- Emergency department responses to battered women : resistance to medicalization / Demi Kurz -- The social construction of deviance : experts on battered women / Donileen R. Loseke & Spencer E. Cahill -- The battered woman movement and the creation of the wife beating problem / Kathleen J. Tierney -- Identity, strategy, and feminist politics : clemency for battered women who kill / Patricia Gagn.