Rethinking Violence Against Women

Rebecca Emerson Dobash, Russell P. Dobash

SAGE Publications, Sep 11, 1998 - Psychology - 276 pages

This cutting-edge volume advances theories, methodologies and policy analyses relating to various forms of violence against women. Topics covered include: the nature, importance and variety of cultural contexts in which violence occurs, is reproduced and may be challenged or changed; the nature and variety of sexualized violence; and a range of theoretical perspectives on perpetrators of violence.

Taking an interdisciplinary focus on issues that affect community and state responses, the book includes individual accounts, and incorporates themes related to authority, sexual proprietariness, asymmetry of violence, socialization, patterns and deviations of victims and offenders, and social and cultural contexts.

About the author

Dobash received a doctorate in sociology from Washington State University, and currently is serving on the faculty of the University of Stirling, Scotland.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Rethinking Violence Against Women; Volume 9 of SAGE Series on Violence against Women
• Editors: Rebecca Emerson Dobash, Russell P. Dobash
• Contributors: Rebecca Emerson Dobash, Russell P. Dobash, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, 1998
• ISBN: 0761911871, 9780761911876
• Length: 276 pages
• Subjects: Family & Relationships / Abuse / General; Psychology / Interpersonal Relations; Social Science / Criminology; Social Science / Violence in Society; Social Science / Women's Studies