Sonja Plesset

Sheltering Women

Negotiating Gender and Violence in Northern Italy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"In this beautifully written ethnography, Sonja Plesset illustrates how gendered understandings impact people at multiple levels: in the inner workings of women's shelters, in the larger sociocultural context of Parma, and in the changing Italian legal system. The insights that the author provides into the reasoning of wives who stay with abusive husbands and those who leave them, as well as into the abusive husbands themselves, makes for sometimes harrowing, but always enlightening reading."--David Sutton, Southern Illinois University "In this captivating ethnography of two women's organizations concerned with intimate partner violence in Parma, Italy, Sonja Plesset explores the consequences of feminist theory and activism for law and everyday life. Originating in the Cold War political cultures of Communism and Christian Democracy, the organizations differentially privilege motherhood but share disappointment over feminism's failure to alter men's roles at home. Plesset analyzes narratives of domestic violence, and interviewees' interpretations of its surprising prevalence and meaning, in ways that speak both to any society undergoing the 'modernization' of gender relations, and specifically to Italy, whose strongly hegemonic religious institutions, family-dependent welfare state, very low birthrate, and emphasis on making a bella figura combine to shape a particular range of outcomes."--Jane Schneider, City University of New York

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780804753012
• ISBN-10: 0804753016
• Artikelnr.: 21428323

Autorenporträt

Sonja Plesset teaches Anthropology and writing for the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University.