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O'Toole Laura L

Gender violence : Interdisciplinary perspectives - New York New York University Press 1997 - 526p xi

Content:
(1) the origin of the family, private property, and the state;
(2) the sociocultural context of rape;
(3) sexual coercion in American life;
(4) sexual terrorism;
(5) data from a Canadian national survey regarding obscene and threatening telephone calls to women;
(6) life in the Naval Academy;
(7) African-American women writers explicating rape;
(8) a male rape survivor breaks his silence;
(9) the global health burden of rape;
(10) violence in lesbian and gay relationships;
(11) violence, gender, and elder abuse;
(12) child sexual abuse and the regulation of women;
(13) pornography;
(14) violence, gender, and social change; and
(15) linguistic violence against women.
Tables,
notes,
bibliography,
index

ISBN: 9780814780411

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Women Studies2. Crimes - Against - Women - U S A 3. Gender Voilation - U S A 4. Pronography - Social Aspects - U S A

Dewey Class. No.: 362.820000 / OTO