Violence against women
By: Noël Merino, book editor
Series: Current controversies series; Current controversies
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780737774269; 9780737774276
Subjects: Violence against; Crimes against; Women
Work titles: Violence against women (Greenhaven Press)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Is violence against women in the United States a serious problem? Overview: Sexual violence by gender and race / Matthew J. Breiding et al. ; Violence against women is a major public policy issue / Office on Violence Against Women ; Domestic violence is a problem that deserves more attention / Doug Pardue et al. ; Rape culture? It's too real / Sally Kohn ; Domestic violence myths help no one / Christina Hoff Sommers ; The rape epidemic is a fiction / Kevin D. Williamson ; There is no so-called rape culture / Cathy Young; title: What causes violence against women? Tyrannical military culture causes violence against women / Ann Jones ; Our military, ourselves : why Americans are to blame for the Pentagon's outrageous sex scandals / Micah Zenko and Amelia Mae Wolf ; One way to end violence against women? Married dads / W. Bradford Wilcox and Robin Fretwell Wilson ; Marriage will not save women from male violence / Amanda Marcotte ; Rape is caused by a culture of toxic masculinity / Jaclyn Friedman ; Rape is not caused by patriarchy and is not normal / Wendy McElroy; title: Has legislation to reduce violence against women been effective? Overview: The Violence Against Women Act / Lisa N. Sacco ; The Violence Against Women Act has reduced violence / The White House ; Two decades of legislation have improved violence against women / Tara Culp-Ressler ; Laws against violence help but enforcement is needed / Ruth Rosen ; Expansion of the Violence Against Women Act is fundamentally flawed / David B. Muhlhausen and Christina Villegas ; The Violence Against Women Act fails because it neglects violence against men / Janice Shaw Crouse; title: What is the extent of violence against women worldwide? Overview: Violence against women worldwide / United Nations ; War's overlooked victims / The Economist ; Violence against women in Latin America : is it getting worse? / Sara Miller Llana and Sibylla Brodzinsky ; Why India is sitting on a social time-bomb of violence against women / Sunny Hundal ; Surging violence against women in Iraq / Zahra Radwan and Zoe Blumenfeld ; Turkey's rampant domestic violence problem / Emily Feldman.