Violence and social control in the home, workplace, community and institutions
Subtitle: papers presented at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Association of Sociologists and Anthropologists (AASA), March 21-24, 1991, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland
Series: ISER conference papers -- no. 3
Publisher: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Insitute of Social and Economic Research
Published: 1991
Place of publication: St. John's, Nfld
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Violence; Congresses; Family violence; Sexism
Table of contents: title: Tempest in the soul: logics of intimate violence  -- George Park; title: The Reality of implementing an effective police policy for battered women  -- Valerie A. Pottie; title: "Family violence" and policing in Newfoundland and Labrador  -- Bill O'Grady; title: Gaining workplace control: union activism and leadership among women bank workers in Ontario and Nova Scotia  -- Pat Baker; title: Public policy and low income single mothers: the violence of welfare in Nova Scotia  -- Brenda Thompson; title: "You're the nicest looking woman in the plant": dealing with sexism and sexuality in the workplace  -- Pauline Gardiner Barber; title: Moral panic and sexual offenses against children  -- Anthony Thomson; title: "Restoring confidence in the criminal justice system" -- the Hughes Commission and mass media coverage: making homosexuality a problem  -- Gary Kinsman; title: Hegemonic heterosexual masculinity: sports, looks and a woman, that's what every guy needs to be masculine  -- Blye Frank; title: Gendered violence and the media: the normalization of crime in society -- Chris McCormick.