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The Gender Politics of HIV/AIDS in Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 474

The Gender Politics of HIV/AIDS in Women

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997-06
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

From their posts at the center of the pandemic - in the laboratory, the academy, clinics, and community based organizations - experts such as Evelynn Hammonds, Risa Denenberg, Michelle Murrain, and Paul Farmer criticize blind spots in the recognition and treatment of HIV in women and articulate accessible and practical solutions to specific areas of difficulty.

Safety Planning with Battered Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Safety Planning with Battered Women

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: SAGE

Safety Planning with Battered Women introduces a new model of ôwoman-definedö advocacy that is designed to bridge the gap that sometimes occurs between a battered womanÆs perspective and a victim advocateÆs perception. Created to improve service delivery to women who are victims of domestic violence, this new model emphasizes placing attention on the victimÆs assessment of the risk in a violent relationship and in her decision making. Authors Jill Davies, Eleanor Lyon, and Diane Monti-Catania strive to help advocates better understand battered womenÆs decisions, including the decision to remain in an abusive relationship; to improve advocacy for victims with varying cultural background...

Changing Communities in Challenging Contexts to Address Intimate Partner Violence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 103
Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights

An interdisciplinary collection, Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights examines the potential and limitations of the "women's rights as human rights" framework as a strategy for seeking gender justice. Drawing on detailed case studies from the United States, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere, contributors to the volume explore the specific social histories, political struggles, cultural assumptions, and gender ideologies that have produced certain rights or reframed long-standing debates in the language of rights. The essays address the gender-specific ways in which rights-based protocols have been analyzed, deployed, and legislated in the past and the present and the implicatio...

Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 331

Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking

  • Categories: Law

Women’s rights advocates in the United States have long argued that violence against women denies women equality and citizenship, but it took a movement of feminist activists and lawyers, beginning in the late 1960s, to set about realizing this vision and transforming domestic violence from a private problem into a public harm. This important book examines the pathbreaking legal process that has brought the pervasiveness and severity of domestic violence to public attention and has led the United States Congress, the Supreme Court, and the United Nations to address the problem. Elizabeth Schneider has played a pioneering role in this process. From an insider’s perspective she explores ho...

A Typology of Domestic Violence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 175

A Typology of Domestic Violence

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-09-01
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  • Publisher: UPNE

Reassesses thirty years of domestic violence research and demonstrates three forms of partner violence, distinctive in their origins, effects, and treatments

Report of Activities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 104

Report of Activities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Rethinking Violence Against Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Rethinking Violence Against Women

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-09-11
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  • Publisher: SAGE

Based on a series of international workshops sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundations, this cutting-edge volume advances theories, methodologies, and policy analyses relating to various forms of violence against women. Under the skillful editorship of Rebecca Emerson and Russell P. Dobash, Rethinking Violence Against Women is the joint effort of recognized anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, and historians in the field. Divided in three parts, this text takes a comprehensive examination of the following topics: +

Can Gun Control Work?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Can Gun Control Work?

  • Categories: Law

Few schisms in American life run as deep or as wide as the divide between gun rights and gun control advocates where the debate is largely defined by forceful rhetoric rather than substantive analysis. This text explores the gun-control options of the most heavily armed democracy in the world.

Batterer Intervention Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Batterer Intervention Systems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: SAGE

In response to the debate on the effectiveness of batterer intervention systems, Edward Gondolf's study uses research findings from a multi-site evaluation programme that is the most extensive and comprehensive to date.