Elizabeth Stanko

Intimate Intrusions (Routledge Revivals)

Women's Experience of Male Violence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1985, this book looks at the victimisation of women, focusing on the four main areas of incest, rape, physical violence, and sexual harassment. It examines women's experiences of male violence and looks at the reactions of those to whom women complain, including police officers, judges and union officials.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780415828437
• ISBN-10: 0415828430
• Artikelnr.: 41609053

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Stanko

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Part I: Ordinary experiences 2.
Ordinary Experiences 3. Incest: some of us learn as children 4. Rape: the
ever-present terror 5. Wife battering: all in the family 6. Sexual
harassment: coercion at work 7. Women's lives and male power Part II: The
second assailant 8. The rhetoric of protection 9. Male violence, criminal
violence 10. 'Typical' men's behaviour: working women's grievances 11. Lots
of complaints: strategies for survival; Notes; Bibliography; Index