"En tant que femmes nous sommes tous les jours les cibles d’interpellations, de harcèlement, d’agressions verbales, physiques ou sexuelles plus ou moins graves, plus ou moins violentes, à degrés divers, au travail, dans l’espace public et privé. Souvent nous ne savons comment ré…
Rhode, the director of the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession, examines the progress women in the United States have made toward gender equality and of the problems that still must be addressed. American women fare worse than men on virtually every major dimension of socia…
Theorizing sexual violence
by Grace, Victoria, Heberle, Renée
fromRoutledge research in gender and society
Taking sexual violence in the form of rape and hetero-psychological/physical abuse, trafficking, and harassment as a point of departure, the authors explore questions about the relationship between sex, sexuality and violence in order to better understand the terms on which wome…
What causes men's violence against women?
This book outlines the scope of the issue of violence against women and debunks current attempts to label intimate violence as gender neutral. It lays bare the structural practices that sustain this violence, leading to a discussion of long- and short-term policies to address th…