Scars across humanity
Subtitle: understanding and overcoming violence against women
By: Elaine Storkey
Published: 2018
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780830852048
Subjects: Violence against; Women
Notes: Previously published: Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Naming the problem; title: A global pandemic; title: Violence begins before birth: selective abortion and infanticide; title: Cut for purity: female genital mutilation; title: Early and enforced marriage: child abuse by another name; title: Whose honour? Killings and femicide as reprisals for shame; title: Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide: violence in the home; title: Money, sex and violence: trafficking and prostitution; title: Rape; title: War and sexual violence; title: Why gender-based violence? It's in our genes: exploring our evolutionary heritage; title: Why gender-based violence? Power and patriarchy; title: Religion and women; title: Christianity and gender: a fuller picture.