Joshua M. Price

Structural Violence (eBook, ePUB)

Hidden Brutality in the Lives of Women

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gold Medalist, 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women's Studies category

Structural Violence seeks to redraw the conventional map of violence against women. In order to understand violence as a fundamentally heterogeneous phenomenon, it is essential to go beyond interpersonal partner violence and analyze the workings of institutional and structural violence. Self-help books, some shelters, the courts, federal and state legislation, empirical studies, therapeutic models, and even some mainstream feminist polemics presume that all women face the same kind of violence. This assumption masks violence that does not conform to the imagined norm, such as violence against women who are sex workers, lesbians, homeless, and/or undocumented. Joshua M. Price's exploration of these issues is based on several years of research involving participant-observation in domestic violence courts and extensive interviews with activists, advocates, incarcerated women, and women who have faced various forms of violence. Both conceptually and methodologically, the book challenges narrow notions of violence against women and demonstrates implications for judicial intervention and other forms of public involvement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 193
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438443454
• Artikelnr.: 61246573

Autorenporträt

Joshua M. Price is Associate Professor and Director, Program in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the cotranslator (with María Lugones) of Rodolfo Kusch's Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América.