Ordinary violence
Subtitle: everyday assaults against women
By: Mary White Stewart.
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Women -- Crimes against; Women -- Violence against; Sex discrimination against women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-303) and index.
Table of contents: title: The construction of wife battery and violence against women as a social problem; title: Lenses on violence: seeing assaults against women; title: Swept away: cultural support for violence against women; title: The intersection of work, family, and violence; title: Just tryin' to make a living; title: Real victims, reasonableness, and rape; title: It's just a different culture; title: Corporate violence against women; title: The consequences of medicalizing ordinary assaults against women.