Challenging global gender violence : the Global Clothesline Project / Susan D. Rose.
"Challenging Global Gender Violence" provides a qualitative and comparative analysis of women's experiences of violence, healing, and action across cultures. Gender violence is the most pervasive human rights violation affecting women and children across both the developed and developing world. Whil...
| Uniform Title: | Palgrave pivot.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Palgrave pivot.
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 146 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Part I. Gender violence across cultures. 1. Gender violence: the problem
- Part II. Telling lives: women's stories from the Global Clothesline Project. 2. Black heart ; 3. Shame ; 4. Difficult decisions: staying, leaving ; 5. Trauma narratives: breaking the silence of childhood sexual abuse
- Part III. Gender in/equality: reaching toward ending gender violence. 6. Abuse is not traditional: culture and colonization ; 7. Facing the challenges: creating and sustaining healthy relationships and societies.