Broken Bodies, Broken Dreams
Subtitle: Violence Against Women Exposed
Publisher: United Nations Pubns; OCHA/IRIN
Published: July 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9789966710802
Subjects: Violence in society; Criminology; Women's Studies - General; Offenses Against Women; Sociology Of Women; Social Science; Sociology
Description: Violence against women is a pandemic, one that transcends the bounds of geography, race, culture, class and religion. It touches virtually every community, in virtually every corner of the globe. Too often sanctified by custom and reinforced by institutions, it thrives on widespread impunity for perpetrators in what remains a patriarchal world that is reluctant to grant women equal rights and protection from gender-based violence. This book offers testimony of the different types of gender-based violence experienced by women and girls worldwide throughout their lives, through the use of photographs, individual case studies and illustrative text.--Publisher's description.