Gender violence
Subtitle: a cultural perspective
By: Sally Engle Merry.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.; Wiley-Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780631223580; 9780631223597
Subjects: Women -- Violence against
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: A cultural perspective on gender violence; title: Gender violence and social movements; title: Punishment, safety, and reform: interventions in domestic violence; title: Gender violence as a human rights violation; title: Poverty, racism, and migration; title: Violent "cultural" practices in the family; title: Women and armed conflict; title: Conclusions; title: Bibliography.