Women's Encounters with Violence : Australian Experiences Paperback / softback
Edited by Sandra Cook, Judith Bessant
Part of the SAGE Series on Violence against Women series
Paperback / softback
Description
The issue of violence against women in countries around the world continues to receive increasing public, media, political, and scholarly attention.
While research findings in WomenÆs Encounters of Violence in Australia are framed within a specific perspective, they extend beyond national boundaries to provide a critical analysis needed to change political and social policies worldwide.
Editors Sandy Cook and Judith Bessant introduce the history of violence in Australia and examine how culturally embedded laws and customs have acted like locks on womenÆs oppression.
In addition to culture-specific topics such as the injustices suffered by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, the contributors also explore issues that cross cultural boundaries, including violence against women with disabilities, homeless women, and lesbians. Promoting a crucial international context to this pervasive problem, WomenÆs Encounters of Violence in Australia proves an excellent supplemental text for students as well as an accessible and timely resource for a broad range of professionals in counseling, social work, health care, and law and faculty in sociology, public policy, and womenÆs studies.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication Date:20/08/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780761904328
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication Date:20/08/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780761904328
