"An updated edition of the groundbreaking anthology that explores the proliferation of gendered violenceFrom Harvey Weinstein to Brett Kavanaugh, accusations of gender violence saturate today’s headlines. In this fully revised edition of Gender Violence, Laura L. O’Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman, and Rosemary Sullivan bring together a new, interdisciplinary group of scholars, with up-to-date material on emerging issues like workplace harass ..."
"How gender and sexuality can be life threatening From the murder of schoolgirls in a rural Amish community to the widespread rape of women in the Sudan to sexual predators on the Internet, this volume explores the persistent, pervasive phenomenon of gendered violence in the United States and around the world.In the fully revised second edition of this path-breaking anthology, the editors bring together emerging scholarship from feminist ..."
"Though violence against women has received increasing attention from scholars and the general public alike, much of the literature on the subject is scattered in monographs, journals, and books focusing on specific forms of gender violence. In their path-breaking anthology Gender Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, editors Laura L. O'Toole and Jessica Schiffman have brought together central articles and authors to construct a rema ..."
"An updated edition of the groundbreaking anthology that explores the proliferation of gendered violenceFrom Harvey Weinstein to Brett Kavanaugh, accusations of gender violence saturate today’s headlines. In this fully revised edition of Gender Violence, Laura L. O’Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman, and Rosemary Sullivan bring together a new, interdisciplinary group of scholars, with up-to-date material on emerging issues like workplace harass ..."
"From the murder of schoolgirls in a rural Amish community to the widespread rape of women in the Sudan to sexual predators on the Internet, this volume explores the persistent, pervasive phenomenon of gendered violence in the United States and around the world.In the fully revised second edition of this path-breaking anthology, the editors bring together emerging scholarship from feminist, post-modern, ..."
"Though violence against women has received increasing attention from scholars and the general public alike, much of the literature on the subject is scattered in monographs, journals, and books focusing on specific forms of gender violence. In their path-breaking anthology Gender Violence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, editors Laura L. O'Toole and Jessica Schiffman have brought together central articles and authors to construct a rema ..."
"“The Importance of Cultural Competence in Ministering to African American
Victims of Domestic Violence. ... Affilia: Journal of Women & Social Work 21 (3):
282– 95. ... The Domestic Violence Sourcebook: Everything You Need to Know."
"-Social Capital is an important crtique that should stimulate further analysis and dicussion of what constitutes community.- -- New Political Science -The reader emerges with a good sense of the gaps in Putnam's work- or more appropriately in the context of this book, the way in which the 'feelgood' factor of Putnam's work deserves critical analysis.---Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations This collect ..."
"A thorough treatment of the subject, Social Problems presents a variety of ways for students to understand the complexities of particular social difficulties. The authors demonstrates how to consider issues of race, class, and gender when interpreting problems so students can see issues from many vantage points. As in previous editions, historical and major theoretical perspectives successfully lend a solid foundation for students' anal ..."
"Despite the explosion of critical writing on gender and sexuality, relatively little work has focused on Latin America. Sex and Sexuality in Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Readerfills in this gap. Daniel Balderston and Donna J. Guy assert that the study of sexuality in Latin America requires a break with the dominant Anglo-European model of gender. To this end, the essays in the collection focus on the uncertain and contingent natu ..."
"By the turn of the twentieth century, Beaumont, Texas had acquired a reputation as a rough place. Situated in the oil-soaked chaos of Spindletop, Jefferson County was a hotbed of vice. For decades, gambling and prostitution thrived as elected officials either looked the other way or took money to keep quiet. That is, until 1960 when a swashbuckling young state legislator blew into town and spearheaded an intensive investigation into the ..."